Temperature dependence of the birefringence of optical-disk substrate

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 3031-3038

  Goodman, Timothy D ^a   Gerber, Ronald E ^a   Mansuripur, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical data storage; Polycarbonate disk substrate; Substrate birefringence

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844258864     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003031     Document Type: Article

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