The field of aero-optics is devoted to the study of the effects of turbulent flow fields on laser
beams projected from airborne laser systems. This article reviews the early and present …

This review summarizes the optical, electromagnetic, and acoustic imaging techniques that
are in use or available for mapping convection, temperature, and solute concentration in the …

The aero-optical distortions caused by compressible flows have been used by researchers
for flow diagnostics and accepted by designers of airborne optical systems as a performance …

Methods used in optical tomography have thus far proven to produce images of complex
target media (eg, tissue) having, at best, relatively modest spatial resolution. This presents a …

Stereoscopic imaging and reconstruction of turbulent impinging diffusion flames have been
demonstrated. The 3D geometry of the flame surface is reconstructed from any pair of stereo …

Wavefront reconstruction is carried out using sequentially recorded speckle patterns and an
iterative phase retrieval method based on wave propagation. A novel fast-convergent …

We present an Abel-inversion algorithm to reconstruct mean and rms refractive-index
profiles from spatially resolved statistical measurements of the beam-deflection angle in time …

Salt concentration distribution around a potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystal
growing from its aqueous solution has been experimentally determined using a laser …

This dissertation investigates a novel idea of implementing background oriented schlieren
(BOS) with a plenoptic camera along with its application for 3-dimensional (3D) density …

An optical tomography system that is capable of operating at frame rates of up to 5 kHz has
been used to obtain spatially resolved cross-sectional temperature images of a heated …