Quasi-achromatic laser Doppler anemometry systems based on a diffractive beam splitter

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 28, 2003, Pages 5642-5648

  Kitchen, Steven Richard ^a,b   Dam Hansen, Carsten ^a   Jakobsen, Michael Linde ^b  

^a KAMSTRUP A S   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; HOLOGRAMS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTORESISTORS;

OPTICAL FRINGES;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0141925192     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005642     Document Type: Article

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