Review of High-power Kerr-lens Mode-locked Yb-doped All-solid-state Lasers （Invited）

Wenlong TIAN; Rui XU; Jiangfeng ZHU; Zhiyi WEI

doi:10.3788/gzxb20215008.0850207

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