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Fabien Ravet1, Xiaoyi Bao, Liang Chen

  • 1Department of Physics, Fiber Optic Group, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N5N5, Canada. fabien.ravet@science.uottawa.ca

Applied Optics
|September 10, 2005
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