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Acta Photonica Sinica
Vol. 51, Issue 7, 0751415 (2022)

Nonlinear Amplification Techniques for Ultrafast Fiber Lasers（Invited）

Runzhi CHEN^1、3, Yuting XING^1、3, Yao ZHANG^1、2, Dongliang WANG^1、3, Junli WANG², Zhiyi WEI^1、3、4, and Guoqing CHANG^{1、3、4、*}

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Optical Physics，Institute of Physics，Chinese Academy of Sciences，Beijing 100190，China

²School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering，Xidian University，Xi'an 710071，China

³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences，Beijing 100049，China

⁴Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory，Dongguan，Guangdong 523808，China

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Runzhi CHEN, Yuting XING, Yao ZHANG, Dongliang WANG, Junli WANG, Zhiyi WEI, Guoqing CHANG. Nonlinear Amplification Techniques for Ultrafast Fiber Lasers（Invited）[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(7): 0751415 Copy Citation Text

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Runzhi CHEN, Yuting XING, Yao ZHANG, Dongliang WANG, Junli WANG, Zhiyi WEI, Guoqing CHANG. Nonlinear Amplification Techniques for Ultrafast Fiber Lasers（Invited）[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(7): 0751415

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