Near-infrared active polarimetric and multispectral laboratory demonstrator for target detection

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1610-1618

  Alouini, Mehdi ^a,b   Goudail, François ^c   Grisard, Arnaud ^a   Bourdehonnet, Jérôme ^a   Dolfi, Daniel ^a   Bénière, Arnaud ^a,c   Baarstad, Ivar ^d   Løke, Trond ^d   Kaspersen, Peter ^d   Normandin, Xavier ^e   Berginc, Gerard ^e  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^d Prost Stabels Vei 22   (Norway)

^e Laser Solutions Unit   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BUILDING BLOCKES; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NEAR INFRARED; POLARIMETRIC CAPABILITIES; POLARIMETRIC IMAGE;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 63149137688     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001610     Document Type: Article

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