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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 1, 011404(2025)

Pattern control of a Q-switched pulsed laser with a dual-cavity configuration digital laser

Zheng-Xian Tsai... Kuo-Chih Chang and Shu-Chun Chu* |Show fewer author(s)

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Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, China

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics

Received: Mar. 20, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 1, 2024

Published Online: Jan. 24, 2025

The Author Email: Shu-Chun Chu (scchu@mail.ncku.edu.tw)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.011404

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.011404

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laser devices and laser physics

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