Thermal effects in a hollow waveguide beam launch for CO2 laser power delivery

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 4787-4789

  Su, Daoning ^a   Somkuarnpanit, Suripon ^a   Hall, Denis R ^a   Jones, Julian D C ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CO2 beam delivery; Hollow waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011281821     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004787     Document Type: Article

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