| Imaging polarimetry of the rainbow. | |
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PMID: 12570260 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Using imaging polarimetry, we measured the polarization patterns of a rainbow on the shore of the Finnish town of Oulu in July 2001. We present here high-resolution color-coded maps of the spatial distributions of the degree and angle of linear polarization of the rainbow in the red (650 +/- 30 nm), green (550 +/- 30 nm), and blue (450 +/- 30 nm) ranges of the spectrum. The measured polarization characteristics of the investigated rainbow support earlier theoretical and computational results and are in accordance with previous qualitative observations. To our knowledge, this is the first imaging polarimetric study of rainbow polarization. |
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András Barta; Gábor Horváth; Balázs Bernáth; Viktor Benno Meyer-Rochow |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Applied optics Volume: 42 ISSN: 0003-6935 ISO Abbreviation: Appl Opt Publication Date: 2003 Jan |
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Created Date: 2003-02-06 Completed Date: 2003-02-24 Revised Date: 2003-11-04 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0247660 Medline TA: Appl Opt Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 399-405 Citation Subset: - |
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Bioptics Laboratory of the Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány sétány 1., Hungary. |
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