Abstract

Using the optical transform intensity and a new inversion formula, we demonstrate the recovery of particulate size distributions. For the optical experiments, chrome masks are fabricated to provide three distributions: the gamma, the log-normal, and the bimodal exponential. Excellent agreement with the theory is obtained.

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