Aberrated lenses for generating flattened laser irradiance

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 4200-4205

  Pu, Jixiong ^a   Zhang, Huihua ^a  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0142041035     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004200     Document Type: Article

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