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Optics Communications

Electronic energy transfer induced by collision between two excited sodium atoms

M. Allegrini, G. Alzetta, A. Kopystyńska, L. Moi, Gaspar T. Orriols

Published Oct 1, 1976• 103 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(76)90394-1

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