Modeling dielectric half-wave plates for cosmic microwave background polarimetry using a Mueller matrix formalism
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Optics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0003-6935,1539-4522
DOI: 10.1364/ao.49.006313