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Y Zhao1, G Mu, X Zhu

  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Science and Technology, Education Ministry of China, Tianjin, China.

Optics Letters
|August 29, 2006
PubMed

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