Power delivery of free electron laser light by hollow glass waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 27, 1996, Pages 5395-5397

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Matsuura, Kaori ^a   Harrington, James A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Free electron laser; Hollow waveguide; Infrared fiber optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000120281     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.005395     Document Type: Article

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