Particle size analysis of turbid media with a single optical fiber in contact with the medium to deliver and detect white light

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 3792-3799

  Canpolat, Murat ^a   Mourant, Judith R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY;

PHOTODIFFUSION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0038639609     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003792     Document Type: Article

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