Delivery of F2-excimer laser light by aluminum hollow fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 257-261

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EXCIMER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; INERT GASES; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

GLASS TUBING; HOLLOW FIBERS; LASER LIGHT; WAVELENGTH;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 0004610280     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000257     Document Type: Article

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