Bundled hollow optical fibers for transmission of high-peak-power Q-switched Nd:YAG laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 7174-7178

  Yilmaz, Ozgur ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a   Matsuura, Yuji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

BEAM-RESIZING OPTICS; DERMATOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; HOLLOW-FIBER BUNDLE;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33750551069     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007174     Document Type: Article

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