Experimental determination of the Stokes parameters using a dual photoelastic modulator system

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2644-2652

  Guan, Wei ^a,b   Cook, Paul J ^a   Jones, Grenville A ^a   Shen, Tiehan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTILAYER FILMS;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DETECTION SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; PHOTO-ELASTIC MODULATOR; STOKES PARAMETERS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 77955959327     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.002644     Document Type: Article

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