Generation of narrowband antisymmetric lamb waves using a formed laser source in the ablative regime

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-155

  Cosenza, Claudio ^b   Kenderian, Shant ^c   Djordjevic, B Boro ^a,d   Green Jr , Robert E ^e   Pasta, Antonino ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Materials and Sensors Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND RECEIVERS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; FILTERING FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ARRAYS; FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; LASER ABLATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SONICATION;

EID: 33846315958     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.220     Document Type: Article

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