Mode-locked fiber laser of 3.5 &#181;m using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber mirror

Jincheng Wei; Peng Li; Linpeng Yu; Shuangchen Ruan; Keyi Li; Peiguang Yan; Jiachen Wang; Jinzhang Wang; Chunyu Guo; Wenjun Liu; Ping Hua; Qitao Lü

doi:10.3788/COL202220.011404

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