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    The gain of an amplifier device like a laser gain medium cannot maintain a fixed level for arbitrarily high input powers, as this would require adding unlimited power to the amplified signal. Therefore, the gain must be reduced at high input powers, known as gain saturation. For a laser gain medium specifically, the gain does not instantly adjust to the level based on optical input power because the medium stores energy, with the stored energy determining the gain. A sudden increase in input power will only reduce the gain within a certain time as the population of excited laser ions is reduced at a finite rate, impacting laser dynamics.

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    The gain of an amplifier device like a laser gain medium cannot maintain a fixed level for arbitrarily high input powers, as this would require adding unlimited power to the amplified signal. Therefore, the gain must be reduced at high input powers, known as gain saturation. For a laser gain medium specifically, the gain does not instantly adjust to the level based on optical input power because the medium stores energy, with the stored energy determining the gain. A sudden increase in input power will only reduce the gain within a certain time as the population of excited laser ions is reduced at a finite rate, impacting laser dynamics.

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    The gain of an amplifier device like a laser gain medium cannot maintain a fixed level for arbitrarily high input powers, as this would require adding unlimited power to the amplified signal. Therefore, the gain must be reduced at high input powers, known as gain saturation. For a laser gain medium specifically, the gain does not instantly adjust to the level based on optical input power because the medium stores energy, with the stored energy determining the gain. A sudden increase in input power will only reduce the gain within a certain time as the population of excited laser ions is reduced at a finite rate, impacting laser dynamics.

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    An amplifier device such as a laser gain medium cannot maintain a fixed gain for arbitrarily
    high input powers, because this would require adding arbitrary amounts of power to the
    amplified signal. Therefore, the gain must be reduced for high input powers; this
    phenomenon is called @   (or @  
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    In the case of a laser gain medium, the gain does not instantly adjust to the level according
    to the optical input power, because the gain medium stores some amount of energy, and
    the stored energy determines the gain. For example, a sudden increase in the input power
    of a laser gain medium will reduce the gain only within a certain time, because the
    population of excited laser ions is only reduced with a certain finite rate. This has important
    consequences for the laser dynamics.

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