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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Superradiant light source for atmospheric remote sensing

Dmitri V. Voronine, Andrew J. Traverso, Rodrigo Sánchez-González, Luqi Yuan, Michael P. Grubb, Kai Wang, Aleksei M. Zheltikov, Arthur Dogariu, James Michael, Richard B. Miles, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Alexei V. Sokolov, Simon W. North, Marlan O. Scully

Published Feb 28, 2012• 0 citations
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