Errors of Mueller matrix measurements with a partially polarized light source

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 6497-6506

  Nee, Soe Mie F ^a,b  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS;

COMPENSATOR SYSTEMS; ERROR MATRICES; POLARIMETRIC COMPONENTS; STOKES METHOD;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 33750357650     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006497     Document Type: Article

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