Laser attenuation of the focused powder streams in coaxial laser cladding

Journal of Laser Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 28-33

  Lin, Jehnming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coaxial laser cladding; Laser attenuation; Stream focusability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039770257     PISSN: 1042346X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2351/1.521910     Document Type: Article

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