The status and prospects of the Q & A experiment with some applications

Proceedings of the 5th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 108-111

  Mei, Hsien Hao ^a   Ni, Wei Tou ^a   Chen, Sheng Jui ^b   Pan, Sheau Shi ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON-MOUTON EFFECT; ND : YAG LASERS; OPTICAL SENSITIVITY; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; STATUS AND PROSPECT;

BIREFRINGENCE; BOSONS; LIGHT SOURCES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; VACUUM;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84880497015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3204/DESY-PROC-2009-05/mei-hsien-hao     Document Type: Conference Paper

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