Design and testing of a two-monochromator reference spectrofluorimeter for high-accuracy total radiance factor measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 892-902

  Zwinkels, Joanne C ^a   Gignac, D S ^a   Nevins, M ^a,b   Powell, I ^a   Bewsher, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorimetry; Fluorescence; Instrument design; Reflectance; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037759968     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000892     Document Type: Article

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