A digital laser for on-demand laser modes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ngcobo, Sandile ^a,b   Litvin, Igor ^b   Burger, Liesl ^b   Forbes, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; LASER; OPTICAL METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER; LASER DIFFRACTION; NEODYMIUM YAG LASER;

EID: 84881472284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3289     Document Type: Article

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