Differential absorption mueller matrix spectroscopy and the infrared detection of crystalline organics

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 27, 1998, Pages 6550-6557

  Carrieri, Arthur H ^a   Bottiger, Jerold R ^a   Owens, David J ^b   Roese, Erik S ^b  

^a EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Quetron Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PHOTODETECTORS;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION MUELLER MATRIX SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; INFRARED DETECTION; NEURAL NETWORK PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032552293     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.006550     Document Type: Article

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