Interferometric imaging polarimeter

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2244-2249

  Mujat, Mircea ^a   Baleine, Erwan ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS;

ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING SYSTEMS; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; STOKES POLARIMETRY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 8744236067     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.002244     Document Type: Article

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