Highly efficient and stable coupling of kilowatt-level continuous wave laser into hollow-core fibers

Yulong Cui; Wei Huang; Zhiyue Zhou; Hao Li; Meng Wang; Zilun Chen; Zefeng Wang

doi:10.3788/COL202220.040602

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