Spectral modulation for full linear polarimetry

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1337-1346

  Snik, Frans ^a   Karalidi, Theodora ^a   Keller, Christoph U ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MODULATION; POLARIMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; MULTIPLE-ORDER RETARDERS; POLARIZATION MODULATION; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION SIGNALS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 63049094188     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001337     Document Type: Article

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