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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry

Published on: August 12, 2013

C Xie, R Gupta, H Metcalf

    Optics Letters
    |October 6, 2009
    PubMed

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