Conditions for polarization elements to be dichroic and birefringent

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1447-1452

  Savenkov, Sergey N ^a   Sydoruk, Oleksiy I ^a   Muttiah, Ranjan S ^b  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

DICHROIC; EIGENPOLARIZATIONS; JONES MATRICES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 22244483448     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.001447     Document Type: Article

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