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Q-switched picosecond pulses of up to 100pJ have been generated in a novel tapered bow-tie diode laser while maintaining a single spatial mode. This indicates an order of magnitude pulse energy increase over otherwise similar nontapered structures.
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Williams et al. (1994) studied this question.
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