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Unlike ordinary light sources such as lamps, electric bulbs, or discharge tubes, the laser is an oscillator similar to a radio transmitter. In this chapter an elementary theory of laser action is presented with the help of circuit theory and rate equations. The semiclassical theory and the quantum-mechanical theory of the laser are deferred to Chap. 9.
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Shimoda, K. (1986). Principle of the Laser. In: Introduction to Laser Physics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38954-5_5
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