Light scattering from the volume of optical thin films: Theory and experiment

Applied Optics

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 1304-1313

  Kassam, Samer ^a   Duparré, Angela ^a   Hehl, Karl ^a   Bussemer, Peter ^a   Neubert, Jakob ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Light scattering; Optical thin films; Thin film microstructures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975605156     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.31.001304     Document Type: Article

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