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3 - Propagation and focusing of optical fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2012

Lukas Novotny
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, New York and ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Bert Hecht
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
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