Visible Raman and Brillouin lasers from a microresonator/ZBLAN-fiber hybrid system

Shuisen Jiang; Changlei Guo; Kaijun Che; Zhengqian Luo; Tuanjie Du; Hongyan Fu; Huiying Xu; Zhiping Cai

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000566

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