Biological laser action

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1775-1779

  Wang, Lihong ^a   Liu, Da ^a   He, Nancy ^a   Jacques, Steven L ^a   Thomsen, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplification of spontaneous emission; Fluorescence; Laser action; Tissue optics; Turbid media

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010542714     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001775     Document Type: Article

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