Contactless optoelectronic technique for monitoring epoxy cure

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1130-1135

  Cusano, Andrea ^a   Buonocore, Vincenzo ^c   Breglio, Giovanni ^a   Calabrò, Antonio ^d   Giordano, Michele ^c   Cutolo, Antonello ^a,b   Nicolais, Luigi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c Inst of Compos Mat Technology   (Italy)

^d ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CURING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EPOXY CURES;

THERMOSETS;

EID: 0000751623     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001130     Document Type: Article

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