Demonstration of differential backscatter absorption gas imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1440-1448

  Powers, Peter E ^a,b   Kulp, Thomas J ^a   Kennedy, Randall ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; GAS ABSORPTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RADAR; THERMAL PLUMES;

DECORRELATION ANALYSIS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0001095926     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001440     Document Type: Article

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