Development of low-loss sapphire mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 337-341

  Blair, D G ^a   Notcutt, M ^a   Taylor, C T ^a   Wong, E K ^a   Walsh, C ^b   Leistner, A ^b   Seckold, J ^b   Mackowski, J M ^c   Ganau, P ^c   Michel, C ^c   Pinard, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Float polishing; Low loss coatings; Mirrors; Sapphire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002761856     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000337     Document Type: Article

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