Design of polarization-selective diffractive phase elements in a laser cavity

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 33, 1999, Pages 6887-6891

  Liu, Juan ^a   Gu, Ben Yuan ^a   Yang, Guo Zhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 0041729879     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006887     Document Type: Article

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