Accurate polarization measurements with a dual photoelastic modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 5899-5904

  Kuldkepp, Mattias ^a   Hawkes, Nick C ^b   Rachlew, Elisabeth ^a   Schunke, Beatrix ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; PHOTOELASTICITY; POLARIZATION;

POLARIZATION EFFECTS; SYMMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 28044470968     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005899     Document Type: Article

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