Design and operation of an in situ microchannel alignment-detection system

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 5368-5376

  Robertson, Brian ^a   Kabal, David ^a   Boisset, Guillaume C ^a   Liu, Yongsheng ^a   Robertson, William M ^b   Taghizadeh, Mohammad R ^c   Plant, David V ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0346663106     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005368     Document Type: Article

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