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We have achieved 62 dB of gain in a four-pass 4 mm × 4 mm × 10 cm flash-lamp-pumped Nd:YAG slab laser amplifier. The zigzag-slab geometry permits the overlap of several beams in a small gain volume and thus provides efficient high-gain unsaturated amplification.
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Kane et al. (1986) studied this question.
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