Achromatic half-wave plate for submillimeter instruments in cosmic microwave background astronomy: Experimental characterization

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 6982-6989

  Pisano, Giampaolo ^a   Savini, Giorgio ^a   Ade, Peter A R ^a   Haynes, Vic ^a   Gear, Walter K ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; FOURIER OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

BACK-WAVE OSCILLATORS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB); FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS (FTS); HALF-WAVE PLATE (HWP);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750560658     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006982     Document Type: Article

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