Three-dimensional polarization ray-tracing calculus I: Definition and diattenuation

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2855-2865

  Yun, Garam ^a   Crabtree, Karlton ^a   Chipman, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

CORNER CUBES; DIATTENUATION; JONES CALCULUS; POLARIZATION RAY TRACING; POLARIZATION RAY TRACING MATRIXES; POLARIZATION TRANSFORMATION; REFLECTION AND REFRACTIONS; THREE FOLDS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 79959410063     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002855     Document Type: Article

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