Maximum degree of polarization of the resultant of two partially polarized incoherent beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 606-607

  Bohren, Craig F ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84975564553     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.26.000606     Document Type: Article

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2. C. F. Bohren, “Polarization of Skylight,” Weatherwise 37, 261 (1984).
3. W. A. Shurcliff, Polarized Light(Harvard U. P., Cambridge, MA, 1962).
4. D. Clarke and J. F. Grainger, Polarized Light and Optical Measurement(Pergamon, Oxford, 1971).