Research Article

Determination of the Thermal Diffusivity of Plasmonic Nanofluids Containing PVP-Coated Ag Nanoparticles Using Mode-Mismatched Dual-Beam Thermal Lens Technique

Figure 5

Representation of the positions of the laser beams in the sample for the two-beam thermal lens experimental setup. PD: photodetector. Dotted red line represents the trajectory of the probe beam without the thermal lens effect. Solid red line represents the actual trajectory of the probe beam.