Polarization effects in aperture synthesis arrays

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 980-987

  Rousselet Perraut, Karine ^a   Mourard, Denis ^b   Vakili, Farrokh ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Instrumental polarization; Optical aperture synthesis; Polarized visibility; Visibility function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038099697     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601143     Document Type: Article

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