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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 23, Issue 1, 011404 (2025)

Pattern control of a Q-switched pulsed laser with a dual-cavity configuration digital laser

Zheng-Xian Tsai, Kuo-Chih Chang, and Shu-Chun Chu^*

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Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, China

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