Clipping the tail of a TE-CO2 laser pulse using a gas breakdown technique for high resolution chemical plume detection

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1064-1069

  Bellecci, Carlo ^a   Bellucci, Ida ^a   Gaudio, Pasqualino ^a   Martellucci, Sergio ^a   Petrocelli, Giovanni ^a   Richetta, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ELECTRODES; JITTER; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; PLASMA DENSITY;

PLASMA SHUTTERS;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 0037324829     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1533790     Document Type: Review

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