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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Simulation of the radial energy distribution of a laser beam propagating through a medium with multistep photoionization

Katsuaki Akaoka, Yoichiro Maruyama, Takashi Arisawa

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

In the Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation process with large volume of photon-atom interaction, multi-color laser beam travels through the atomic vapor as long as several hundreds of meters.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.wa.10

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