Sun-pumped lasers: Revisiting an old problem with nonimaging optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 31, Issue 36, 1992, Pages 7541-7546

  Cooke, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0347422997     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.31.007541     Document Type: Article

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