Optimum control of the laser beam intensity profile with a deformable mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7689-7695

  Nemoto, Koshichi ^a   Nayuki, Takuya ^a   Fujii, Takashi ^a   Goto, Naohiko ^a   Kanai, Yoshi Kazu ^b  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b Leonix Corporation   (Japan)

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EID: 0008906152     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007689     Document Type: Article

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