Photons in the service of our past: Lasers in the preservation of cultural heritage

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-27

  Georgiou, Savas ^a   Anglos, Demetrios ^a   Fotakis, Costas ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lasers; Preservation of cultural heritage

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849105206     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: 13665812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107510802038398     Document Type: Review

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