Use of hollow-core fibers to deliver nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses to form sparks in gases

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2083-2085

  Yalin, A P ^a   DeFoort, M ^a   Willson, B ^a   Matsuura, Y ^b   Miyagi, M ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPERIC-PRESSURE GASES; FLEXIBLE FIBERS; ND:YAG LASERS; OPTICAL SPARKS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COATINGS; GASES; OLEFINS; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 24344440292     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.002083     Document Type: Article

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