Experimental investigation of circular light depolarization using polarization sensitive OCT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6429, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Charalambous, Ismini ^a   Cucu, Radu ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^b   Podoleanu, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depolarization; OCT; Scattering

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF CIRCULAR POLARIZATION (DOCP); ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION CHANNELS; POLARIZATION MEMORY; RADIATION WAVELENGTH;

BACKSCATTERING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLYSTYRENES; WAVELENGTH;

DEPOLARIZATION;

EID: 34248578021     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.703710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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