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T V Teperik1, A Archambault, F Marquier

  • 1Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, Campus Polytechnique, RD 128, 91127 Palaiseau cedex, France. tatiana.teperik@institutoptique.fr

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