Electro-optic lightning detector

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4623-4634

  Koshak, William J ^a   Solakiewicz, Richard J ^b  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHTNING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC LIGHTNING DETECTORS; POTASSIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032606336     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004623     Document Type: Article

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