Keyhole morphology monitoring in laser welding using optical coherence tomography

Guanming Xie; Weixin Ma; Yueqiang Zhang; Sanhong Wang; You Li; Biao Hu; Shaohua Yan; Yu Fu; Qifeng Yu

doi:10.3788/COL202523.031201

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