Free-electron lasers: Reliability, performance, and beam delivery

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 810-816

  Edwards, Glenn S ^a,b,c,d   Evertson, Dale ^a,d,e   Gabella, William ^a   Grant, Richard ^a   King, Terry L ^a   Kozub, John ^a   Mendenhall, Marcus ^a   Shen, Jin ^a   Shores, Roy ^a   Storms, Scott ^a   Traeger, Robert H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d Department of Physics ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; TISSUE;

BEAM DELIVERY; PRE CLINICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH; VANDERBILT FREE ELECTRON LASER;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 0030368034     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577303     Document Type: Article

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