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Optics Communications

Quantum noise effects in intrinsic optical bistability of a system of interacting two-level atoms

Y. Ben-Aryeh, Charles M. Bowden

Published Aug 1, 1989• 8 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(89)90195-8

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