Optical contamination screening of materials with a high-finesse fabry-perot cavity resonated continuously at 1.06-μm wavelength in vacuum

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 25, 1999, Pages 5378-5383

  Li, Daqun ^a   Coyne, Dennis ^a   Camp, Jordan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0012382617     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005378     Document Type: Article

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