Self-mixing feedback in a laser diode for intra-arterial optical blood velocimetry

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 25, 2001, Pages 4608-4615

  Scalise, Lorenzo ^a,b   Steenbergen, Wiendelt ^a   de Mul, Frits ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FIBER LASERS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SELF-MIXING FEEDBACK;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0000333852     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004608     Document Type: Article

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