Simultaneous light scattering and intrinsic fluorescence measurement for the classification of airborne particles

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 3738-3745

  Kaye, Paul H ^a   Barton, John E ^a   Hirst, Edwin ^a   Clark, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ELASTIC SCATTERING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0000472308     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003738     Document Type: Article

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