Compact spatial polariscope for light polarization state analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10471-10479

  Woźniak, Władystaw A ^a   Kurzynowski, Piotr ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION;

BIREFRINGENT MEDIA; BIREFRINGENT MEDIUMS; ELLIPTICITY ANGLE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MEASUREMENTS OF; POLARIZATION STATE; SINGULAR POINTS; SPATIALLY MODULATED;

BIREFRINGENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE REFRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 47249083030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010471     Document Type: Article

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