Coupling effects of signal and pump beams in three-level saturable-gain media

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2433-2438

  Mitnick, Yuri ^a   Horowitz, Moshe ^a   Fischer, Baruch ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 0032350986     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.002433     Document Type: Article

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