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Filaments with a regular spacing of the order of 25 μm are experimentally observed in double-pass broad area GaAlAs amplifiers for near normal injection angle. Their formation is attributed to nonlinear interaction between counterpropagating beams and Talbot self-imaging.
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Tamburrini et al. (1992) studied this question.
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