A study of photon propagation in free-space based on hybrid radiosity-radiance theorem

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 16266-16280

  Chen, Xueli ^a   Gao, Xinbo ^a   Qu, Xiaochao ^a   Liang, Jimin ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Yang, Da'an ^a   Garofalakis, Anikitos ^b   Ripoll, Jorge ^b   Tian, Jie ^a,c  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENSES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

COMPARISON RESULT; CONTACT MEASUREMENTS; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; LAMBERT'S COSINE LAW; PHOTON PROPAGATION; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 69949096636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016266     Document Type: Article

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