Absolute solar transmittance interferometer for ground-based measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3582-3589

  Hawat, Toufic ^a   Stephen, Thomas ^a   Murcray, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CALIBRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FILTERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS;

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS; SOLAR TRANSMITTANCE INTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0037141895     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003582     Document Type: Article

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