Optical fibers and waveguides for medical applications

Biomedical Photonics: Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 7-1-7-22

  Gannot, Israel ^a   Ben David, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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