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Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 26-30

  Chiao, Raymond Y ^a   Milonni, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT VELOCITY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MONOCHROMATORS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VECTORS;

LIGHT PULSES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0036626956     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.13.6.000026     Document Type: Review

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