High-accuracy measurement of 240-m distance in an optical tunnel by use of a compact femtosecond laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 30, 2000, Pages 5512-5517

  Minoshima, Kaoru ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TUNNELS;

OPTICAL TUNNELS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0003426303     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005512     Document Type: Article

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