Adaptive algorithms for two-channel polarization sensing under various polarization statistics with nonuniform distributions

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5504-5520

  Yemelyanov, Konstantin M ^a   Lin, Shih Schön ^a   Pugh Jr , Edward N ^b   Engheta, Nader ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICS;

NONUNIFORM DISTRIBUTIONS; POLARIZATION-DIFFERENCE IMAGING (PDI); TWO-CHANNEL POLARIZATION;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33749848674     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005504     Document Type: Article

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