High-peak-power, pulsed CO2 laser light delivery by hollow glass waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 5072-5077

  Dai, Jiwang ^a   Harrington, James A ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical optics; Fiber optics; Hollow waveguides; Pulsed CO2 lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001396322     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005072     Document Type: Article

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