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Optics Communications

Modeling absorption in saturable absorbers

Alok Sharan, Ramesh C. Sharma, S. N. Sandhya, Arvind Ayyer, K.K Sharma

Published Nov 1, 2001• 14 citations
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10.1016/s0030-4018(01)01568-1

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