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Using Microwave and Macroscopic Samples of Dielectric Solids to Study the Photonic Properties of Disordered Photonic Bandgap Materials
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Propagator-based calculation of the propagation properties of dielectric waveguide structures

R J Hawkins

    Applied Optics
    |June 10, 2010
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