The SCUBA-2 polarimeter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6342 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Leclerc, Mélanie R ^a   Bastien, Pierre ^b   Bernier, Sophie ^a   Bissonnette, Eric ^b   Ade, P A R ^c   Pisano, Giampaolo ^c   Savini, Giorgio ^c  

^a INO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical Systems Design; Polarimetry; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN;

POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 33749841249     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.692309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. Max Born and Emil Wolf, Principles of optics : electromagnetic theory of propagation, interference and diffraction of light, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999).
4. A. Gerrard and J.M. Burch, Introduction to matrix methods in optics (Dover publications Inc., New York, 1975), p. 335-337.
5. Giorgio Savini, Giampaolo Pisano, Peter A.R. Ade, "Achromatic Half-Wave Plate for Submillimetre Instruments in CMB Astronomy: Modelling and Simulation" (submitted to Applied Optics).