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A laser anemometer capable of operating on the signal backscattered from an unseeded supersonic airflow has been used to measure velocities over a range of Mach numbers extending to 2·46. The signal processing was carried out with a photon correlator.
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Abbiss et al. (1972) studied this question.
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