Practical considerations in photon correlation experiments

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7480-7492

  Brown, Robert G W ^a   Smart, Anthony E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic light scattering; Laser velocimetry; Photon correlation

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS;

DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; LASER TRANSIT ANEMOMETRY; LASER VELOCIMETRY; PHOTON CORRELATION;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 0031244659     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007480     Document Type: Article

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