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Emission of coherent radiation was observed from ZnS which was excited through two-photon absorption of radiation from a giant-pulse ruby laser. The spectral width decreased from 75 to 12.8 Å above a threshold ruby-laser power of 35 MW/cm2. Photographic pictures showed a beam divergence of less than 1°.
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Wang et al. (1968) studied this question.
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