Propagation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in Degenerate Laser Amplifiers
- 14 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (7) , 495-498
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.495
Abstract
The shape and area of the output from physically realizable amplifiers of inverted -degenerate two-level atoms are calculated analytically. The ()- or -pulse output is made up from a sequence of double-humped pulses followed by pulses, where .
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