Light scattering from laser-damaged speckled surfaces

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8775-8784

  Theocaris, Pericles S ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

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EID: 0542370794     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008775     Document Type: Article

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