Spatial and temporal evolution of argon sparks

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3931-3937

  Harilal, Sivanandan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCIES; NEODYMIUM; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YTTRIUM;

ARGON SPARKS; BOLTZMANN PLOT; GATED PHOTOGRAPHY; OPTICAL EMISSION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 3142601477     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003931     Document Type: Article

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