Optical coherence tomography for quality assessment of embedded microchannels in alumina ceramic

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4603-4618

  Su, Rong ^a   Kirillin, Mikhail ^b   Ekberg, Peter ^a   Roos, Arne ^c   Sergeeva, Ekaterina ^b   Mattsson, Lars ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SPHERES;

ALUMINA CERAMIC; AUTOMATED LINES; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; EMBEDDED MICROCHANNELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-PROCESS; INPUT DATAS; INSPECTION SYSTEM; INTEGRATING SPHERE MEASUREMENTS; METAL STRUCTURES; MICRO DEVICES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; TRANSMITTANCE SPECTRA;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84857331392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004603     Document Type: Article

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