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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 8, 800 (2018)

Generation of 84-fs pulses from a mode-locked Tm:CNNGG disordered garnet crystal laser

Zhongben Pan^1,2,†,*, Yicheng Wang^1,†, Yongguang Zhao^1,3..., Hualei Yuan², Xiaojun Dai², Huaqiang Cai², Ji Eun Bae⁴, Sun Young Choi⁴, Fabian Rotermund⁴, Xavier Mateos⁵, Josep Maria Serres⁵, Pavel Loiko⁶, Uwe Griebner¹ and Valentin Petrov¹|Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

²Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China

³Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China

⁴Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 34141 Daejeon, South Korea

⁵Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA-FiCNA)-EMaS, Departament de Química Física i Inòrganica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Campus Sescelades, E-43007 Tarragona, Spain

⁶ITMO University, 49 Kronverkskiy Pr., 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia

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Zhongben Pan, Yicheng Wang, Yongguang Zhao, Hualei Yuan, Xiaojun Dai, Huaqiang Cai, Ji Eun Bae, Sun Young Choi, Fabian Rotermund, Xavier Mateos, Josep Maria Serres, Pavel Loiko, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, "Generation of 84-fs pulses from a mode-locked Tm:CNNGG disordered garnet crystal laser," Photonics Res. 6, 800 (2018) Copy Citation Text

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Zhongben Pan, Yicheng Wang, Yongguang Zhao, Hualei Yuan, Xiaojun Dai, Huaqiang Cai, Ji Eun Bae, Sun Young Choi, Fabian Rotermund, Xavier Mateos, Josep Maria Serres, Pavel Loiko, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, "Generation of 84-fs pulses from a mode-locked Tm:CNNGG disordered garnet crystal laser," Photonics Res. 6, 800 (2018)

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