Sonoluminescence: Nature's smallest blackbody

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 575-577

  Vazquez, G ^a   Camara, C ^a   Putterman, S ^a   Weninger, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACKBODY;

LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SONOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 0000370964     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000575     Document Type: Article

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