Generation of sub-100 fs pulses tunable from 1700 to 2100 nm from a compact frequency-shifted Er-fiber laser

Grzegorz Soboń; Tadeusz Martynkien; Karol Tarnowski; Paweł Mergo; Jarosław Sotor

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000151

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