COIL performance modeling and recent advances in diagnostic measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3092, Issue , 1997, Pages 676-681

  Truesdell, Keith A ^a   Helms, Charles A ^a   Frerking, S ^a   Hager, Gordon D ^a   Plummer, David N ^b   Copland, Richard J ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Logicon RDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical laser; Chemical laser diagnostics; Chemical oxygen iodine laser

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL LASERS; FLOW OF GASES; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IODINE; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; LASERS; OXYGEN; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN IODINE LASER; COIL MODELS; DIAGNOSTIC MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE MODELING; POWER EXTRACTIONS; SATURATION MODELS;

LASER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0344594522     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.270162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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