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Intense, well-controlled regular light pulse trains start to play a crucial role in many fields of physics. We theoretically demonstrate a very simple and robust technique for generating such periodic ultrashort pulses from a continuous probe wave which propagates in a dispersive thermal gas media.
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Muradyan, G., Hovhannisyan, M. Coherence as ultrashort pulse train generator. Appl. Phys. B 103, 649–652 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4469-4
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