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Outlook and Conclusions

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Three application ideas are derived from the knowledge and the achievements which have been accomplished through the experiments and simulations presented in the Chaps. 2–4 of this thesis. The author expects that each of them could be realized on the time scale of about one year.

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Seidel, M. (2019). Outlook and Conclusions. In: A New Generation of High-Power, Waveform Controlled, Few-Cycle Light Sources. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10791-8_5

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