High beam quality of ultraviolet radiation generated through resonant enhanced frequency doubling of a diode laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2207-2216

  Goyal, Anish K ^a   Bhawalkar, Jayant D ^a   Conturie, Yves ^a   Gavrilovic, Paul ^a   Mao, Yalan ^a   Po, Hong ^a   Guerra, John ^a  

^a POLAROID CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0012169210     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.16.002207     Document Type: Article

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