Influence of sodium impurities on arf excimer-laser-induced absorption in caf2 crystals

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3925-3930

  Komine, Norio ^a   Sakuma, Shigeru ^a   Shiozawa, Masaki ^a   Mizugaki, Tsutomu ^a   Sato, Eiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; SODIUM;

LASER FLUENCE;

EXCIMER LASERS;

EID: 0000429757     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003925     Document Type: Article

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