Properties of the polarization ray tracing matrix

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6682, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yun, Garam ^a   Crabtree, Karlton ^a   Chipman, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diattenuation; Polarization ray tracing; Ray tracing; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

RAY TRACING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

DIATTENUATION; INHOMOGENEOUS MATRICES; POLARIZATION RAY TRACING;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 42349103541     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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