Analyzing laser plasma interferograms with a continuous wavelet transform ridge extraction technique: The method

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 35, 2001, Pages 6561-6568

  Tomassini, Paolo ^a   Giulietti, Antonio ^a   Galimberti, Marco ^b   Gizzi, Leonida A ^a   Giulietti, Danilo ^b   Borghesi, Marco ^c   Willi, Oswald ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHASE SHIFT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

RIDGE EXTRACTION;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 0038149701     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006561     Document Type: Article

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