Water at the ice point: A useful quasi-blackbody infrared calibration source

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 4053-4057

  Horwitz, James W ^a  

^a RADIANT RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 0043135235     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004053     Document Type: Article

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