Narrow-linewidth megahertz-rate pulse-burst laser for high-speed flow diagnostics

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5064-5073

  Thurow, Brian ^a   Jiang, Naibo ^a   Samimy, Mo ^a   Lempert, Walter ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW DIAGNOSTICS; PULSE ENERGY; SPECTRAL LINEWIDTH; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

LASERS;

EID: 4944222925     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005064     Document Type: Article

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