Vacuum-cored hollow waveguide for transmission of high-energy, nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses and its application to biological tissue ablation

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-51

  Sato, Shunichi ^a   Ashida, Hiroshi ^a   Arai, Tsunenori ^a   Shi, Yi Wei ^b   Matsuura, Yuji ^b   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0002679054     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000049     Document Type: Article

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