Probe-beam diffraction in a pulsed top-hat beam thermal lens with a mode-mismatched configuration

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5241-5249

  Li, Bincheng ^a   Welsch, Eberhard ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 0000376005     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005241     Document Type: Article

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