Temperature measurement by degenerate four-wave mixing with strong absorption of the excitation beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 33, 1996, Pages 6544-6547

  Herring, G C ^a   Roberts, William L ^b   Brown, Michael S ^c   de Barber, Peter A ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c MetroLaser   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLAMES; OPTICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030420535     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006544     Document Type: Article

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