Complete polarization state generator with one variable retarder and its application for fast and sensitive measuring of two-dimensional birefringence distribution

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 410-419

  Shribak, Michael ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

BIREFRINGENCE DISTRIBUTION; ELLIPTICITY ANGLE; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; ORIENTATION ANGLES; POLARIZATION ELLIPSE; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPES; POLARIZATION-STATE GENERATORS; POLARIZED LIGHT; QUARTER WAVE-PLATE; RETARDANCE; SENSITIVE MEASURING; VARIABLE RETARDER;

POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79952330549     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.28.000410     Document Type: Article

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