Sensing polarization with variable coherence tomography

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

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2383-2389

  Tyo, J Scott ^a   Turner, Theodore S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; COHERENCE STATES; COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; COHERENCY MATRIXES; INCIDENT BEAMS; MONOSTATIC; OBSERVATION ANGLES; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERINGS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STOKES VECTORS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 56849101484     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002383     Document Type: Article

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