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To maintain these devices’ vacuum states without exacerbating loss at interfaces, they can be sealed with Brewster windows. These devices provide the typical setting for Faraday isolators, which prevent feedback from these devices. Magnets and these devices were used in Wieman and Cornell’s cooling techniques (20[3])for (20[1])producing (20[2])the first Bose–Einstein (20[8])condensate. (20[11])(*) Q-switching (10[2])activates (10[1])these devices (10[1])for short time periods by modulating resonator loss. (10[1])The tunability of media used in these devices is governed by gain bandwidth. These devices add photons in order to raise the energy levels of electrons via optical (10[1])pumping, resulting in population inversion. For 10 points, (10[1])name these devices (10[1])that emit polarized (10[1])coherent light via stimulated emission. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: lasers [or Q-switched lasers; accept light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation]
<Michael Bentley, Science - Physics&gt; ~25436~ &lt;Editor: David Bass>
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