Measurement of optical rotation and phase retardance of optical samples with depolarization effects using linearly and circularly polarized probe lights

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 948-955

  Lin, Jing Fung ^a   Lo, Yu Lung ^b  

^a FAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Depolarization; Optical rotation; Retardance; Stokes parameters

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; DEPOLARIZATION EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GLUCOSE SOLUTION; HALF WAVEPLATE; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; MUELLER MATRIX FORMALISM; PHASE RETARDANCE; POLARIZATION FRACTIONS; PROBE LIGHT; RETARDANCE; ROTATION ANGLES; STOKES PARAMETERS;

BIREFRINGENCE; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DEPOLARIZATION; GLUCOSE; OPTICAL ROTATION; PROBES; TURBIDITY;

ROTATION;

EID: 67449089612     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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