Single laser beam measurement of thermal diffusivity

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 6530-6534

  Bourgoin, Jean Philippe ^a   Doiron, Serge ^a   Deveaux, Michel ^a   Haché, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

BEAM MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION CURVES; DIFFUSION PROPERTIES; HEAT DIFFUSIONS; MEASURED SIGNALS; REFLECTED BEAM; SURFACE THERMAL LENSING; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 60949084634     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006530     Document Type: Article

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