Fully-polarimetric passive scanning imager at millimeter wavelengths

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5789, Issue , 2005, Pages 35-43

  Duric, Aleksandar ^a   Mallepell, Marc ^a   Wuetrich, Max ^a   Weber, Daniel ^a   Magun, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Imaging; Millimeter; Passive; Polarization; Stokes parameter

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SCANNING; TRANSDUCERS;

HYBRID NETWORKS; PASSIVE; SCANNING POLARIMETRIC IMAGING RADIOMETERS (SPIRA); STOKES PARAMETER;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 26844449478     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.609718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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