External photoacoustic detection of a trace vapor inside a multimode laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2625-2629

  Latz, Torsten J ^a   Weirauch, Gabriele ^a   Baev, Valery M ^a   Toschek, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 85010179843     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002625     Document Type: Article

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