Synthesis of a multiple-peak spatial degree of coherence for imaging through absorbing media

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2921-2927

  Gokhler, Mark ^a   Rosen, Joseph ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MONOCHROMATORS;

ABSORBING MEDIA; DEGREE OF COHERENCE; INHOMOGENEOUS ABSORPTION; PROFILOMETERS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 20444438704     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002921     Document Type: Article

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