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Photonics Research
Vol. 10, Issue 11, 2584 (2022)

Multi-gigahertz mode-locked femtosecond Yb:KLuW waveguide lasers

Ji Eun Bae¹, Xavier Mateos², Magdalena Aguiló², Francesc Díaz², Javier García Ajates³, Carolina Romero³, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana³, and Fabian Rotermund^1、*

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¹Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, Republic of Korea

²Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA), 43007 Tarragona, Spain

³Grupo de Investigación en Aplicaciones del Láser y Fotónica, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

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Ji Eun Bae, Xavier Mateos, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Javier García Ajates, Carolina Romero, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana, Fabian Rotermund. Multi-gigahertz mode-locked femtosecond Yb:KLuW waveguide lasers[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(11): 2584 Copy Citation Text

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