The Mueller reflection matrix of isotropic chiral specimen

Optik (Jena)

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 173-176

  Georgieva, Elena M ^a   Lalov, Ivan J ^b   Gospodinov, Marin ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; MUELLER REFLECTION MATRIX; MUELLER-MATRIX ELLIPSOMETRY; STOKES PARAMETER;

FOURIER OPTICS;

EID: 0032292748     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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