Evaluation of the estimation accuracy of polarization-based roll angle measurement

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 5158-5164

  Plosker, Effie ^a   Bykhovsky, Dima ^a   Arnon, Shlomi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POLARIZATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OPTICAL POWER; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; REMOTE OBJECT; ROLL ANGLE; TRANSMISSION RANGES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84880775367     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.005158     Document Type: Article

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