Theory and Method of Fourier Transform Hyperspectral Mueller Matrix Imaging

Jie Liu; Jianxin Li; Caixun Bai; Yixuan Xu; Jiamin Qian; Yubo Wang

doi:10.3788/AOS202040.0711004

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