Speckle contrast reduction in a large-core fiber delivering Q-switched pulses for fluid flow measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4209-4218

  Parry, Jonathan P ^a   Shephard, Jonathan D ^a   Jones, Julian D C ^a   Hand, Duncan P ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LIGHTING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LARGE CORE HOLLOW OPTICAL FIBERS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; Q SWITCHED PULSES; SPECKLED INTERFERENCE PATTERNS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 33749552657     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004209     Document Type: Article

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