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In this chapter we investigate two of the main methods of laser-pulse generation, which are Q-switching and mode-locking. Whilst of-course every laser may be pulsed by just switching it on and off, these methods allow accumulation of pump energy between two pulses, and can therefore, create pulse peak powers that are several orders of magnitude higher than the corresponding cw laser output power.
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Eichhorn, M. (2014). Generation of Short and Ultra-Short Pulses. In: Laser Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05128-4_4
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