Deep nulling of visible laser light

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 34, 1999, Pages 7128-7132

  Serabyn, E ^a   Wallace, J K ^a   Hardy, G J ^a   Schmidtlin, E G H ^a   Nguyen, H T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0001101789     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.007128     Document Type: Article

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