Measurements of elliptically birefringent media parameters in optical vortex birefringence compensator

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3390-3396

  Woźniak, Włedysław A ^a   Banach, Marcelina ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW;

BIREFRINGENT MEDIA; BIREFRINGENT MEDIUMS; ELLIPTICITY ANGLE; MEASUREMENTS OF; NEW APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; OPTICAL VORTICES;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 49649107788     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003390     Document Type: Article

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