Compact optical system for pulse-to-pulse laser beam quality measurement and applications in laser machining

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5037-5046

  Lambert, Robert W ^a   Cortés Martínez, Rodolphe ^a,b   Waddie, Andrew J ^a   Shephard, Jonathan D ^a   Taghizadeh, Mohammad R ^a   Greenaway, Alan H ^a   Hand, Duncan P ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DRILLING; LASER PULSES; LENSES;

LASER BEAM QUALITY; LASER MACHINING; PULSE-TO-PULSE LASERS; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4944222407     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005037     Document Type: Article

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