Close Encounters of the Townes Kind

John N. Howard

doi:10.1364/OPN.21.5.000016

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Optics and Photonics News
Vol. 21,
Issue 5,
pp. 16-17
(2010)
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.21.5.000016

Close Encounters of the Townes Kind

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