• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 6, Issue 11, 871 (2008)
Huarui Wang1、2 and Jianqi Shen1
Author Affiliations
  • 1University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093
  • 2Xuzhou Normal University, Xuzhou 221116
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL20080611.0871 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Huarui Wang, Jianqi Shen. Size measurement of nano-particles using self-mixing effect[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2008, 6(11): 871 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In this letter, the technique of laser self-mixing effect is employed for nano-particle size analysis. In contrast to the photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) and photon cross correlation spectroscopy (PCCS), the main advantages of this technique are sensitive, compact, low-cost, and simple experimental setup etc. An improved Kaczmarz projection method is developed in the inversion problem to extract the particle size distribution. The experimental results prove that nano-particle size can be measured reasonably by using the self-mixing effect technique combined with the improved projection algorithm.