Optical power independent optical beam profiler

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 793-797

  Riza, Nabeel A ^a   Mughal, M Junaid ^a  

^a Nuonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

High optical power; Micromirror devices; Spatial beam profiling

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; HIGH POWER LASERS; MICROOPTICS; MIRRORS; PHOTODETECTORS;

HIGH OPTICAL POWER; MICROMIRROR; SPATIAL BEAM PROFILING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 2542511543     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1651557     Document Type: Article

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