All-optical scanning acoustic microscope

In this thesis a new instrument, the all-optical scanning acoustic microscope (O-SAM) is presented, it is a non contact scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) which uses lasers to both generate and detect surface acoustics waves (SAWs) The non contact nature of the O-SAM overcomes some difficulties asso...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharples, Steve David
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10164/