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Photonics Research
Vol. 12, Issue 2, 350 (2024)

Coherent link between a Ti:sapphire comb and a 1.5 μm laser via nonlinear interaction in photonic crystal fiber

Yuan Yao¹, Haosen Shi¹, Guang Yang¹, Bo Li¹, Congyu Wang¹, Hongfu Yu¹, Longsheng Ma^1、2, and Yanyi Jiang^1、2、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Yuan Yao, Haosen Shi, Guang Yang, Bo Li, Congyu Wang, Hongfu Yu, Longsheng Ma, Yanyi Jiang. Coherent link between a Ti:sapphire comb and a 1.5 μm laser via nonlinear interaction in photonic crystal fiber[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(2): 350 Copy Citation Text

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Yuan Yao, Haosen Shi, Guang Yang, Bo Li, Congyu Wang, Hongfu Yu, Longsheng Ma, Yanyi Jiang. Coherent link between a Ti:sapphire comb and a 1.5 μm laser via nonlinear interaction in photonic crystal fiber[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(2): 350

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