Dynamic polarization states and birefringence distributions measurements in spatial elliptical polariscope using Fourier analysis method

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10144-10154

  Kurzynowski, Piotr ^a   Drobczyński, Sławomir ^a   Woźniak, Władysław A ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

BIREFRINGENCE DISTRIBUTION; BIREFRINGENT MEDIUMS; DYNAMIC POLARIZATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS METHODS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR COMPENSATORS; POLARIZATION PARAMETERS; SPATIALLY MODULATED;

POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 66849131427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010144     Document Type: Article

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