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Niyom Lue1, Wonshik Choi, Kamran Badizadegan

  • 1G.H. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Optics Letters
|September 17, 2008
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