Improving the performance of high-power broad-area lasers by suppressing cavity modes propagating in the lateral dimension

Jian Fan; Xuyan Zhou; Weiqiao Zhang; Yufei Wang; Hongwei Qu; Aiyi Qi; Wanhua Zheng

doi:10.3788/COL202321.041406

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