Compounds for use as optical attenuators for CO2 laser radiation

1 February 1976

journal article
letter
Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments

Vol. 47 (2) , 257-259
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1134603

Abstract

The absorption coefficients and some of the physical and chemical properties of compounds which have been found to work well in a continuously variable attenuator for CO₂ laser radiation are presented.

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