Refractive index determination of transparent samples by noniterative phase retrieval

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 427-433

  Frank, Johannes ^a,b   Matrisch, Jan ^c   Horstmann, Jens ^c   Altmeyer, Stefan ^a   Wernicke, Guenther ^b  

^a TH Köln University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

HIGHLY ACCURATE; NON-ITERATIVE; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PHASE RETRIEVAL; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX DETERMINATION; SIMPLE METHOD;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 79551573897     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000427     Document Type: Article

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