High accuracy dual lens transmittance measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5396-5403

  Cheung, Jessica ^a   Gardner, James L ^b   Migdall, Alan ^c,d   Polyakov, Sergey ^c,d   Ware, Michael ^e  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL MEASUREMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOMETRY;

DETECTOR ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; NOMINAL FOCAL LENGTH;

LENSES;

EID: 35448943101     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005396     Document Type: Article

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