This results in low temporal coherence, offering reduced speckle noise when compared with a laser.
Examples of such sources include superluminescent diodes and doped fiber amplifiers.
[2] According to some publications, at the power scaling of disk lasers, the round-trip gain should be reduced,[3] which means hardening[clarification needed] of requirement on the background loss.
[4] In 2008, a group at Washington state university observed reversible photodegradation or simply, self healing in organic dyes like Disperse Orange 11[5] when doped in polymers.
[7] Due to the high intensities within the focal spot of up to 10^22 W/cm2 the ASE is often sufficient to significantly disturb the experiment or even make the desired laser-target interaction impossible.