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R C Gauthier1, M Ashman, C P Grover

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada. gauthier@nickel.laurentian.ca

Applied Optics
|March 8, 2008
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