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Steady States in Spherical Microparticles and Their Instabilities

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For various physical and engineering applications, for example in ultrafast optical data processing systems, many types of spatial lasing configurations have been recently proposed.

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Kotomtseva, L.A., Lednyeva, G.P. (1997). Steady States in Spherical Microparticles and Their Instabilities. In: Martellucci, S., Chester, A.N. (eds) Diffractive Optics and Optical Microsystems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1474-3_8

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