Classification and selective collection of individual aerosol particles using laser-induced fluorescence

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Sivaprakasam, Vasanthi ^a   Pletcher, Timothy ^b   Tucker, John E ^a   Huston, Alan L ^a   McGinn, Joseph ^b   Keller, David ^b   Eversole, Jay D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Sarnoff Corporation   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; LASERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

AEROSOLS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLUORESCENCE; LASER OPTICS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

CLASSIFICATION CRITERION; COMPOSITIONAL INFORMATION; CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATES; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL INTERROGATION; OPTICAL SUB-SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE VALUE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 61449267662     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.00B126     Document Type: Article

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