Dynamic light scattering with single-mode receivers: Partial heterodyning regime

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7508-7517

  Flammer, Ivo ^a   Rička, Jaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dead time; Detector nonlinearity; Dynamic light scattering; Partial heterodyning; Photocount correlation function; Photon counting; Single mode fiber

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOCOUNT CORRELATION FUNCTION; PHOTON COUNTING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0031245031     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007508     Document Type: Article

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