Laser-generation of ultrasonic X-waves using axicon transducers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Passler, K ^a   Nuster, R ^a   Gratt, S ^a   Burgholzer, P ^b   Paltauf, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST MECHANISMS; DEPTH OF FIELDS; FOCAL DEPTHS; HIGH-LATERAL RESOLUTIONS; NON-DIFFRACTING; PULSE WIDTHS; SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; SHORT LASER PULSE; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS; THEORETICAL SIMULATIONS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; X-WAVES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 60349088179     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3083550     Document Type: Article

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