Sufficiently long population decay times and sufficiently short dipole decay times in a single-mode model for a laser with saturable absorber permit coexistence of soft-excited oscillations and Q switching (hard-mode sustained relaxation oscillations).
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Antoranz et al. (1982) studied this question.
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