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Optics Division, Lebedev Physics Institute. Translated from Preprint No. 127 of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1990.
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Vtorova, V.E., Gorbachev, V.I. & Scheglov, V.A. Review of methods of calculating the field in optical cavities and choice of calculation method for free-flow chemical lasers. J Russ Laser Res 12, 126–146 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01126634
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