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Conventional Loss-Measurement Techniques

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Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses

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When measuring relative changes of the intensity of radiation transmitted by a layer of a substance under study, one can identify, to a certain extent, practically any type of optical loss: reflectance of the substance borders with the surroundings, scattering and absorption factors of the entire irradiated object itself, etc. However, there are only a limited number of practical ways for measuring an internal substance loss. Likely procedures include detection of the front and back surface attenuation factors of the substance layer and subtracting these factors from the entire layer transmittance or exclusion of surface losses by comparing several samples of that substance presuming equal surface losses for the distinct samples and identifying the total internal bulk attenuation of the substance via the length difference of the samples measured.

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Bukshtab, M. (2012). Conventional Loss-Measurement Techniques. 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_5

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