Effect of light-beam deviation on the instrument matrix of the four-detector photopolarimeter

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 943-951

  Liu, Jian ^a   Azzam, Rasheed M A ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Field of view; Four detector photopolarimeter; Incident light beam; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348192850     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601260     Document Type: Article

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