Fabrication and measurement of optics for the laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2870-2879

  Walsh, Christopher J ^a   Leistner, Achim J ^a   Seckold, Jeffrey ^a   Oreb, Bozenko F ^a   Farrant, David I ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 0009135069     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002870     Document Type: Article

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