Improvement of beam quality by pump homogenization of Innoslab laser amplifier

Tao He; Xiaoming Chen; Yanhua Lu; Bin Zhang; Liu Xu; Xianlin Ye; Xiafei Xu

doi:10.11884/HPLPB202032.190277

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