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Takuo Akimoto1, Mitsuru Yasuda

  • 1School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Technology, 1404-1 Katakura-machi, Hachiouji, 192-0982 Tokyo, Japan. akimoto@bs.teu.ac.jp

Applied Optics
|January 12, 2010
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