Using chaos for remote sensing of laser radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7491-7504

  Chow, Weng W ^a,b   Wieczorek, Sebastian ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; LASER CONFIGURATION; LASER SIGNALS; LASER SOURCES; REFERENCE FIELD; REMOTE SOURCES;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 66549128840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007491     Document Type: Article

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