Experimental demonstration of multiple pulse nonlinear optoacoustic signal generation and control

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-112

  Blackmon, Fletcher ^a   Antonelli, Lynn ^a  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LASERS; LINEARIZATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; WATER;

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ENERGY DENSITY; OPTOACOUSTIC SONARS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL (SPL);

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 12144258950     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000103     Document Type: Article

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