SOCRATE: An optical bench dedicated to the understanding and improvement of a laser conditioning process

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 8506-8516

  Bertussi, Bertrand ^a   Piombini, Hervé ^a   Damiani, David ^a   Pommies, Matthieu ^a   Le Borgne, Xavier ^a   Plessis, Daniel ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PUMPING (LASER);

LASER CONDITIONING; LASER INDUCED DAMAGE THRESHOLD (LIDT); NONDESTRUCTIVE OPTICAL TECHNIQUES;

EXCIMER LASERS;

EID: 33847024384     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008506     Document Type: Article

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