Beam shaping and suppression of self-focusing in high-peak-power Nd:Glass laser systems

Topics in Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue , 2009, Pages 191-229

  Lukishova, Svetlana G ^a   Senatsky, Yury V ^b   Bykovsky, Nikolai E ^b   Scheulin, Alexander S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 58149143092     PISSN: 03034216     EISSN: 14370859     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-34727-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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