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Scattering of pulsed plane wave from a symmetrical groove doublet configuration

Lan Ding1, Jinsong Liu, Dong Wang

  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

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|January 4, 2011
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