Identification of aerosols by their backscattered Mueller images

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3616-3621

  Li, Changhui ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Yang, Ping ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; ELASTIC LIGHT SCATTERING; MUELLER IMAGES;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 33645820079     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003616     Document Type: Article

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