Extraction of high-quality beams from narrow annular laser sources

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4552-4557

  Lapucci, Antonio ^a   Ciofini, Marco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RING LASERS;

TALBOT EFFECT;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 0032606337     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004552     Document Type: Article

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