YAG_254nm_Hg

A boule of Nd-YAG illuminated by a UV-SW mercury discharge lamp (254nm). The resulting fluorescence spectrum has been masked to remove the visible mercury lamp emission lines that are incompletely filtered from the lamp output.


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