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Spontaneous mode locking has been observed in a high-pressure CO2 laser. The mode-locked pulses were found to be separated by 2L/c. Pulse separations as short as 11 nsec were achieved. The pulse shapes suggest that two axial cavity modes dominate the laser behavior.
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Lyon et al. (1970) studied this question.
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