Subtle effects of the substrate in optical disk data storage systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 34, 1996, Pages 6747-6753

  Goodman, Timothy D ^a   Mansuripur, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth of focus; Laser feedback; Optical data storage; Substrate birefringence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342317332     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006747     Document Type: Article

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