Minimally invasive optical beam profiler

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1892-1901

  Riza, Nabeel A ^a   Jorgesen, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DEVICES;

OPTICAL SCANNERS; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE DEVICES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942709955     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001892     Document Type: Article

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