Measurement of light absorption by aquatic particles: Improvement of the quantitative filter technique by use of an integrating sphere approach

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1336-1351

  Röttgers, Rüdiger ^a   Gehnke, Steffen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ERRORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTION;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; GLASS FIBER FILTERS; INTEGRATING SPHERES; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; POINT-SOURCE INTEGRATING CAVITY ABSORPTION METERS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; TRANSMITTANCE MEASUREMENTS;

PASSIVE FILTERS;

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; FILTRATION; HAPTOPHYTA; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ABSORPTION; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; FILTRATION; FRESH WATER; HAPTOPHYTA; LIGHT; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84858765961     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001336     Document Type: Article

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