120 years of optical glass science: From the law of mixtures to mixing the unmixable

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 44-51

  Dragic, Peter D ^a   Ballato, John ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

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EID: 84901453933     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.25.5.000044     Document Type: Article

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