Transmission imaging polarimetry for a linear birefringent medium using a carrier fringe method

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5489-5496

  Drobczynski, Slawomir ^a   Bueno, Juan M ^a   Artal, Pablo ^a   Kasprzak, Henryk ^b  

^a LABORATORIO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CARRIER FRINGE METHOD; IMAGING POLARIMETRY; QUARTER-WAVE PLATES;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 33749839664     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005489     Document Type: Article

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