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Iffländer, R. (2001). Laser Crystals. In: Solid-State Lasers for Materials Processing. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46585-0_12

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