Mueller matrix error correction for a fringe-free interferometry system

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 3205-3210

  Begbie, Mark L ^a   Sibbett, Wilson ^b   Padgett, Miles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS;

SHEARING INTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ARTICLE;

EID: 0035411971     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003205     Document Type: Article

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