Fiber-optic delivery of high-peak-power Q-switched laser pulses for in-cylinder flow measurement

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 4307-4314

  Stephens, Timothy J ^a   Haste, Martin J ^b   Towers, David P ^a   Thomson, Martin J ^a   Taghizadeh, Mohammed R ^a   Jones, Julian D C ^a   Hand, Duncan P ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JAGUAR LAND ROVER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LASER PULSES; LIGHTING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SPECKLE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COHERENCE LENGTH;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0041731882     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004307     Document Type: Article

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