Multiple-return-pass beam divergence and the linewidth equation

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3038-3041

  Duarte, Francisco J ^a  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PRISMS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LASER BEAM DIVERGENCE;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0038162484     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003038     Document Type: Article

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