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Optics Communications

Energy efficiency of phase conjugation by saturable-gain degenerate four-wave mixing in Nd:YAG amplifiers

A. Brignon, Jean‐Pierre Huignard

Published Aug 1, 1995• 14 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(95)00376-j

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