Effect of surface degradation on optical performance of potassium dihydrogen phosphate optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 27, 2003, Pages 5545-5550

  Wheeler, Elizabeth K ^a   Fluck, Regula ^a   Woods, Bruce ^a   Whitman, Pamela K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ETCHING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOSPHATES; SOL-GELS;

SURFACE DEGRADATION;

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0141919292     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005545     Document Type: Article

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