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Transient features of self-terminating copper vapour lasers (CVLs) based on rate equations are analysed with approximate and exact numerical treatments. It is demonstrated from the former analysis that a predictable maximum value of the laser output in a pulsed CVL is at most the order of one hundred times the steady-state value and from the latter analysis that the features of relaxation oscillation of the CVL on the phase-plane are different from those in the usual relaxation oscillation.
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Taniguchi, H. Analysis of transient features of selfterminating copper vapour lasers based on rate equations. Opt Quant Electron 25, 751–759 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00430564
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