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1Institut de Microtechnique de l'EPFL, 114 Route Cantonale, 1025 St-Sulpice, Switzerland.
The Review of Scientific Instruments
|October 1, 1978
Abstract:
An easily portable apparatus for flicker fusion experiments is described. It uses crossed polarizers to produce modulated beams and a light guide made of optical fibers to mix these beams for producing a sinusoidally modulated stimulus of which the frequency, the modulation amplitude, the luminance, the color adaptation light, and the field size can be varied independently.
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