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The research presented over the following 128 pages is a re-invention of the electrically pumped gas laser, dragging it kicking and screaming into the 21st century by replacing the cumbersome laser tube with new, state of the art hollow core optical fibres.
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Love, A. (2018). Introduction. In: Hollow Core Optical Fibre Based Gas Discharge Laser Systems. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93970-4_1
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