Recovering the frequency dependent modulation function of the achromatic half-wave plate for POL-2: The SCUBA-2 polarimete

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2006-2013

  Savini, Giorgio ^a,b   Ade, Peter A R ^b   House, Julian ^b   Pisano, Giampaolo ^c   Haynes, Vic ^c   Bastien, Pierre ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES;

ACHROMATIC HALF-WAVE PLATES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT POLARIZATION; MODULATION FUNCTIONS; NON IDEALS; SCUBA-2; SPECTRAL INDICES;

MODULATION;

EID: 65249183167     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002006     Document Type: Article

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