Optical properties of a retroreflecting sheet

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 4137-4144

  O’brien, Dominic C ^a   Faulkner, Grahame E ^a   Edwards, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIZING; REFLECTIVE COATINGS;

RETROREFLECTORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0032614172     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004137     Document Type: Article

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