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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Fabricating Micro-Optomechanical Systems for Quantum Optics

Dustin Kleckner, Susanna M. Thon, Brian J. Pepper, Dirk Bouwmeester

Published Mar 16, 2010• 0 citations
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