Laser coupling with a multimode water-jet waveguide

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Couty, Philippe ^a   Wagner, Frank ^a   Hoffmann, Patrik ^b  

^a Synova SA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Laminar water jet waveguide; Laser microjet cutting; Modal noise

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LAMINAR WATER JET WAVEGUIDE; LASER MICROJET CUTTING; MODAL NOISE;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 24344436859     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1928280     Document Type: Article

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