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The Review of Laser Engineering

Coherent Interaction and its Applications to the Ultrafast Optical Switching.

Kenji Wada, Yoshio Cho

Published Jan 1, 1992• 0 citations
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Abstract

Ultrafast optical switching utilizing coherent interaction is reviewed in terms of its principle, problems, applications and features in conjunction with the result of numerical calculations.
DOI
10.2184/lsj.20.8_653

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