Effect of beam coherence on mutually pumped phase conjugators

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1363-1369

  De La Cruz, San Ching ^a   MacCormack, Stuart ^a   Feinberg, Jack ^a   Byron He, Q ^b   Liu, Hua Kuang ^b   Yeh, Pochi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84975609318     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.12.001363     Document Type: Article

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