FECO-based observations of birefringence at normal incidence in optical coatings.
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چکیده
I. J. Hodgkinson is with University of Otago, Physics De partment, Dunedin, New Zealand; F. Horowitz is with In stitute de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 90 000-Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil; H. A. Macleod is with University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona 85721; M. Sikkens is with University of Groningen, Department of Applied Physics, Nyenborgh 18, 9747 A6 Groningen, The Netherlands; and J. J. Wharton is with U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, AFIT/ ENP, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433. Received 6 February 1985.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Applied optics
دوره 24 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985