Black polarization sandwiches are square roots of zero

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Berry, M V ^a   Dennis, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degeneracy; Matrix optics; Nilpotence; Polarization

Indexed keywords

DEGENERACY; MATRIX OPTICS; NILPOTENCE;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTALS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HERMETIC DEVICES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 1642587661     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/6/3/004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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