Fluid velocity measurements in a microchannel performed with two new optical heterodyne microscopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 31, 2002, Pages 6666-6675

  Lo, Yu Lung ^a   Chuang, Chi Hsin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; HETERODYNING; INTERFEROMETERS; LASERS; LIGHT MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

LASER DOPPLER MICROSCOPES (LDM); OPTICAL HETERODYNE MICROSCOPES;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 0036850721     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006666     Document Type: Article

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