Dual-field imaging polarimeter using liquid crystal variable retarders

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5470-5478

  Pust, Nathan J ^a   Shaw, Joseph A ^a  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

GROUND-BASED OBJECTS; INCIDENCE ANGLE; LIQUID CRYSTAL VARIABLE RETARDERA (LCVRS);

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 33747365913     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005470     Document Type: Article

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