Photometric immersion refractometry: A method for determining the refractive index of marine microbial particles from beam attenuation

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4214-4225

  Jonasz, Miroslaw ^a   Fournier, Georges ^b   Stramski, Dariusz ^c  

^a M Jonasz Consultants   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ATTENUATION; MICROORGANISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 0031413821     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004214     Document Type: Article

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