Passively Q-switched operation of a 1.94 &#181;m thulium-doped solid-state laser based on MXene V2CTx

Jinhe Yuan; Jiarui Li; Zhengyang Wu; Shuangcheng Li; Jie Han; Linjun Li

doi:10.3788/COL202321.021402

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