Measurement of smoothed Wigner phase-space distributions for small-angle scattering in a turbid medium

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1896-1908

  Wax, A ^a   Thomas, J E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0032110736     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.15.001896     Document Type: Article

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