Stress-induced focal splitting

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8411-8421

  Spilman, Alexis K ^a   Brown, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

FOCAL SPLITTING; OPTICAL IMAGING; TRIGONAL BIREFRINGENCE;

LIGHTING;

EID: 34250804346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008411     Document Type: Article

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