Abstract
The physical models used to estimate the angular and energy characteristics of laser emission generated in the kinetic and coherent regime of emission interaction with an active medium are critically analyzed and systematized.
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Quantum Radiophysics and Optics Division, Lebedev Physics Institute. Translated from Preprint No. 176 of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1989.
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Biryukov, A.S., Kudryavtsev, E.M., Logunov, A.N. et al. Methods of estimating the angular and energy characteristics of generated laser emission. J Russ Laser Res 11, 129–144 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01120903
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