Mutually pumped phase conjugators with picosecond pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1971-1976

  Ashihara, Satoshi ^a   Matoba, Osamu ^a   Shimura, Tsutomu ^a   Kuroda, Kazuo ^a   Kato, Junichi ^b   Yamaguchi, Ichiro ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

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EID: 0032386024     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.001971     Document Type: Article

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