Accuracy of laser beam center and width calculations

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1378-1385

  Mana, Giovanni ^a   Massa, Enrico ^b   Rovera, Alessandro ^b  

^a Istituto di Metrologia Gustavo Colonnetti   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; SILICON; VIDEO CAMERAS;

LASER BEAM CENTER;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0038503454     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001378     Document Type: Article

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