Accession Number:

ADA139298

Title:

Photoacoustic Imaging.

Descriptive Note:

Annual rept. 30 Jun 82-29 Jun 83,

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA EDWARD L GINZTON LAB OF PHYSICS

Personal Author(s):

• Quate,C. F.

Report Date:

1983-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

38.0

Abstract:

This report includes a description of two new high frequency photoacoustic and photothermal imaging systems developed in the reporting period. Also included is a photoacoustic study of laser recrystallized silicon, and an extension to three dimensions of the theory of thermo-acoustic generation in solids. Author

Descriptors:

• *Image processing
• *Acoustooptics
• *Photographic images
• High frequency
• High resolution
• Photothermal properties
• Interactions
• Semiconductor lasers
• Silicon
• Recrystallization
• Opacity
• Substrates
• Solids
• Dense gases
• Three dimensional
• Coupling(Interaction)
• Quartz
• Thin films

Subject Categories:

• Printing and Graphic Arts
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE