Effect of surface roughness and complex indices of refraction on polarized thermal emission

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 5361-5367

  Gurton, Kristan P ^a   Dahmani, Rachid ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS; HEAT RADIATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION (DOLP); GLASS SUBSTRATES; SLOPE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EMISSION;

REFRACTION;

EID: 25444531235     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005361     Document Type: Article

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