Experimental optical diabolos

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2048-2050

  Egorov, Roman I ^a   Soskin, Marat S ^a   Freund, Isaac ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL ORIENTATION ANGLE; SPECKLE PATTERNS;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAPS; SPECKLE;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 33749455355     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.002048     Document Type: Article

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