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pith:3K6VUZ52

pith:2013:3K6VUZ5235MFDW6ZEGNT4MTHJS
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Modeled fiber amplifier performance near the mode instability threshold

Arlee V. Smith, Jesse J. Smith

arxiv:1301.4278 v1 · 2013-01-18 · physics.optics

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First computed 2026-05-18T03:36:05.728171Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dabd5a67badf5851dbd9219b3e32674cbe5047080277e54840557bfa6fb53c5b

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.4278 · arxiv_version: 1301.4278v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.4278 · pith_short_12: 3K6VUZ5235MF · pith_short_16: 3K6VUZ5235MFDW6Z · pith_short_8: 3K6VUZ52
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3K6VUZ5235MFDW6ZEGNT4MTHJS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: dabd5a67badf5851dbd9219b3e32674cbe5047080277e54840557bfa6fb53c5b
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-18T00:04:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60e02945b8143bc4730f45ef020b1491fa997089f45fa058c374f7c4611cd64b"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}