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Of course nowadays all respectable experiments must employ a laser; you can hardly walk down the street without one.
Sir Brian Flowers, in Proc. 11th Intl. Congr. on High-Speed Photography
Light sources have improved tremendously since Hooke’s first candle-illuminated schlieren system. Combustion lamps eventually gave way to electric sparks, arcs, and filaments, which were then supplemented by coherent and solid-state devices. There is now an expansive literature on the topic that needs no thorough review here. Instead some key references are cited, followed by a brief treatment of the important lamp types for schlieren and shadowgraphy.
It is apparently of the rudest possible construction … C. V. Boys [62], referring to his spark shadowgraph setup
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Settles, G.S. (2001). Practical Issues. In: Schlieren and Shadowgraph Techniques. Experimental Fluid Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56640-0_7
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