Spectrally Flat Supercontinuum Generation in a ZBLAN Fiber Pumped by Erbium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

Huanhuan LIU; Ye YU; Wei SONG; Qiao JIANG; Fufei PANG; and Tingyun WANG

doi:10.1007/s13320-019-0552-y

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