Laser ignition in internal combustion engines- A novel approach based on advanced lasers

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 98, Issue , 2005, Pages 812-818

  Weinrotter, Martin ^a   Kopecek, Herbert ^a   Graf, Josef ^a   Klausner, Johann ^a   Herdin, Günther ^a   Wintner, Ernst ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; GASOLINE; IGNITION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION (COV); INDUCED MEAN EFFECTIVE PRESSURE (IMEP); LASER IGNITION; ND:YAG LASERS;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33645217463     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2005.812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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