Balancing polarization aberrations in crossed fold mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3236-3245

  Lam, Wai Sze Tiffany ^a   Chipman, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION;

DIATTENUATION; FIELD OF VIEWS; LINEAR VARIATION; MIRROR CONFIGURATIONS; P-POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION ABERRATION; QUADRATIC VARIATIONS; SPHERICAL WAVEFRONTS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 84942370681     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.54.003236     Document Type: Article

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