• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 3, Issue 3, A97 (2015)
Yi-Jian Sun1、2, Chao-Kuei Lee3, Jin-Long Xu1, Zhao-Jie Zhu1, Ye-Qing Wang4, Shu-Fang Gao1、2, Hou-Ping Xia1、2, Zhen-Yu You1, and Chao-Yang Tu1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics of CAS, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
  • 3Department of Photonics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • 4Department of Applied Physics, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, China
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    Yi-Jian Sun, Chao-Kuei Lee, Jin-Long Xu, Zhao-Jie Zhu, Ye-Qing Wang, Shu-Fang Gao, Hou-Ping Xia, Zhen-Yu You, Chao-Yang Tu. Passively Q-switched tri-wavelength Yb3+:GdAl3(BO3)4 solid-state laser with topological insulator Bi2Te3 as saturable absorber[J]. Photonics Research, 2015, 3(3): A97 Copy Citation Text show less
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