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Optics Communications

Interaction of two optical waves in a nonlinear medium resulting in Bragg diffraction

Shiva Kumar, G. V. Anand, A. Selvarajan

Published Dec 1, 1992• 0 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(92)90590-n

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