Applying the polarization memory effect in polarization-gated subsurface imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4656-4661

  Nothdurft, Ralph ^a   Yao, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; TURBIDITY;

CROSS-POLARIZED IMAGING; POLARIZATION MEMORY; SUBSURFACE IMAGING;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 33744547399     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004656     Document Type: Article

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