Spectropolarimetric method for optic axis, retardation, and birefringence dispersion measurement

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Safrani, Avner ^a   Abdulhalim, Ibrahim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHROMATIC QUARTER-WAVE PLATES; AVERAGE ABSOLUTE ERROR; BIREFRINGENCE DISPERSION MEASUREMENT; CURRENT TECHNIQUES; LINEAR BIREFRINGENCE; LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES; LOW COSTS; OPTIC AXIS; POLARIZATION REFLECTANCE; PRINCIPAL AXIS; SAPPHIRE PLATES; SIMPLE ALGORITHM;

CORUNDUM; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 67649202851     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3126628     Document Type: Article

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