Limits of optical transmission measurements with application to particle sizing techniques

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 27, 1999, Pages 5887-5893

  Swanson, Nancy L ^a   Billard, Barton D ^a   Gennaro, Theresa L ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

BOUGUER-LAMBERT-BEER LAW;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032606631     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005887     Document Type: Article

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