Optical Second Harmonic Generation for Size Measurement of Small Spherical Clusters
- 29 August 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (9) , 1231-1234
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.1231
Abstract
A new physical effect, the optical second harmonic generation in the combinational process involving a capillary wave excitation, suggests a new diagnostics for the size distribution and temperature of liquid spherical clusters or droplets smaller than the wavelength of light.Keywords
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