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In early research on Nd:glass amplifiers, it was discovered that scaling performance to larger diameters was often invalid; in some cases the expected values of certain parameters were not even approached. That experience demonstrated that there are certain limits to the size of large-aperture amplifiers, determined primarily by the complementary effects of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and parasitic oscillations (PO). These effects result in less energy storage or gain/cm, for example, when an amplifier is scaled up to a larger diameter. The diameter and gain of a stage are important in determining the X-factor or ultimate power capability for short pulses as we will investigate in Chap.7. When X-factor analysis, including both ASE and PO, is combined with cost, optimized system designs may be arrived at (Chap.8).
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Brown, D.C. (1981). Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Parasitic Oscillations in Nd : Glass Amplifiers. In: High-Peak-Power Nd: Glass Laser Systems. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38508-0_4
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