Energy conservation in collective coherent emission by dipole oscillators

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1323-1330

  Berman, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 78649390030     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.3475686     Document Type: Article

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