Advances in 2 μm single-longitudinal-mode all-solid-state pulsed lasers (cover paper&#183;invited)

Bingzheng Yan; Xikui Mu; Jiashuo An; Yaoyao Qi; Jie Ding; Zhenxu Bai; Yulei Wang; Zhiwei Lv

doi:10.3788/IRLA20230730

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