Modeling and optimization for a prismatic snapshot imaging polarimeter

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 8400-8409

  Luo, Haitao ^a   Oka, Kazuhiko ^b   Hagen, Nathan ^a   Tkaczyk, Tomasz ^a   Dereniak, Eustace L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS;

BIREFRINGENT PRISMS; GEOMETRIC IMAGING MODELS; SINUSOIDAL FRINGES;

PRISMS;

EID: 33847018504     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008400     Document Type: Article

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