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Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses pp 537–587Cite as

Direct Attenuation Measurements

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The actual means to increase the sensitivity of a given method for optical loss measurement are not necessarily restrained by limitations to the maximum number of light interactions with the object. For example, the ratio of the highest optical power not inducing damage or optical nonlinearity in the given object to the lowest optical signal definitively distinguished from noise without the need to count photons reaches at least ten or more decades of optical density when applied to optical measurements. If using any feasible method, one converts the high sensitivity to the power or energy of light into high susceptibility to small changes of that power or energy by observing a low optical loss, doing it concurrently with assuring an adequate linear dynamic range of measurements, spatial stability, and temporal stability, the low-loss measurement task would be instantly solved.

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Bukshtab, M. (2012). Direct Attenuation Measurements. In: Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 163. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2165-4_10

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