Self-mixing flow sensor using a monolithic VCSEL array with parallel readout

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11720-11727

  Lim, Yah Leng ^a   Kliese, Russell ^a   Bertling, Karl ^a   Tanimizu, Katsuyoshi ^a   Jacobs, P A ^a   Rakić, Aleksandar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASERS; MIXING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SENSORS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

ACQUISITION RATES; ELECTRONIC SCANNING; FLUID FLOW; FRAME-RATE; FULL-FIELD IMAGING; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRIC SENSING; JUNCTION VOLTAGE; MECHANICAL SCANNING SYSTEMS; PLANAR FLOW; SELF-MIXING; SELF-MIXING SIGNALS; SENSING SCHEMES; SENSING TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; VCSEL ARRAYS; VELOCITY SENSING; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

PARALLEL FLOW;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; FLOW KINETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; LASERS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 77952804657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011720     Document Type: Article

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