Planar-integrated talbot array illuminators

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 5399-5407

  Testorf, Markus ^a,b   Jahns, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

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EID: 0001868614     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005399     Document Type: Article

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