Modal analysis of astronomical bolometric interferometers

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1988-1995

  Withington, Stafford ^a   Hobson, Michael P ^a   Campbell, Edward S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOLOMETRIC INTERFEROMETERS; EIGENFIELDS; SECOND ORDER STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITIONS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 5644253326     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.001988     Document Type: Article

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