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Tang, Z., Furniss, D., Fay, M., Sakr, H., Sojka, L., Sujecki, S., Benson T.M. and Seddon, A.B.: Towards mid-infrared fiber lasers: first rare-earth-ion doped selenide-based chalcogenide glass step-index fiber with a small-core. To appear in Journal of Physics, Conference Series, (2014)