What are the allowed pulse lengths for a CW QCL?

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  1. Alpes Lasers

    “A CW QCL is tested only with continuous excitation, where any pulse longer than one millisecond is seen as “continuous”. The performances shown on the datasheet are the performance in the steady state and do not consider transient effects that occur in this first millisecond.”

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