Nonlinearity in the rotational dynamics of Haidinger's brushes

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 7244-7251

  Rothmayer, Mark ^a   Dultz, Wolfgang ^b   Frins, Erna ^c   Zhan, Qiwen ^d   Tierney, Dennis ^a   Schmitzer, Heidrun ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DYNAMICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

HAIDINGER'S BRUSHES; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS;

BRUSHES;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; ROTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

BIREFRINGENCE; HUMANS; LASERS; LIGHT; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; ROTATION; SOFTWARE; VISION;

EID: 37649024951     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007244     Document Type: Article

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