Depolarization in the Mueller Calculus

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5158, Issue , 2003, Pages 184-192

  Chipman, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTEGRATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VECTORS;

DEPOLARIZATION; MUELLER CALCULUS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 1842584000     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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