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Journal home about issues in progress current issue all issues. This paper concentrates on advances in the short pulse generation field that are a result of using multiplesegment semiconductor laser structures. Qswitching instability in a modelocked semiconductor laser dmitrii rachinskii department of applied mathematics, university college cork, ireland andrei vladimirov and uwe bandelow weierstrass institute for applied analysis and stochastics, mohrenstrasse 39. In semiconductor optical amplifiers soas, photons multiplied via stimulated emission. Advances in solid state and semiconductor sources for. Qpc has recently demonstrated high power semiconductor lasers at 795 nm, 808 nm, 976 nm, 1040 nm, 1064 nm, 1470.
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