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Laser Focus World August 2013

Laser Focus World


 
Laser Focus World August 2013 Issue
Metrology
By Gail Overton
New multipass gas cells beat conventional designs
Inertial-confinement Fusion 
By Jeff Hecht
2014 laser fusion budgets: Rochester going up, Livermore down
Optical Coatings
By Gail Overton 
Crystalline coatings reduce Brownian noise tenfold
Ultrahigh-data-rate Optical Fiber
By John Wallace
Multicore fiber transmits 818 Tbit/s over 450 km
VCSEL Illumination 
By Gail Overton 
High-power VCSELs rule IR illumination


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This month, we speak with Princeton Instruments, whose product won an honorable mention in the 2013 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards.
  
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