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Phase locking of the longitudinal modes of a gas laser has been obtained by translating one of the cavity mirrors at a constant velocity. The velocity required to obtain locking depends almost lineraly on excitation as long as only the fundamental transverse mode is oscillating. No plausible explanation has been found for these effects.
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P. W. Smith (1967) studied this question.
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