Spatial filter pinhole for high-energy pulsed lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2371-2378

  Celliers, Peter M ^a   Estabrook, Kent G ^a   Wallace, Russell J ^a   Murray, James E ^a   Da Silva, Luiz B ^a   MacGowan, Brian J ^a   Van Wonterghem, Bruno M ^a   Manes, Kenneth R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 85010126381     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002371     Document Type: Article

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