Water-core waveguide for pollution measurements in the deep ultraviolet

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4991-4997

  Dress, Peter ^a   Belz, Mathias ^b   Klein, Karl F ^c   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^b   Franke, Hilmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0013098940     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004991     Document Type: Article

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