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In this chapter, we present simple laser equations describing the dynamics of laser oscillation. The equations are coupled differential equations of first order relating the populations of the laser levels and the photon density.
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Renk, K.F. (2012). A Laser Theory. In: Basics of Laser Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23565-8_8
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