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Advanced Photonics Nexus
Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066002 (2023)

Coordination engineering in Nd³⁺-doped silica glass for improving repetition rate of 920-nm ultrashort-pulse fiber laser

Yafei Wang^1,†, Yinggang Chen^1,2, Shikai Wang^1,*, Meng Wang¹..., Lei Zhang¹, Suya Feng¹, Fei Yu^1,3, Guoping Dong⁴, Lei Wen¹, Danping Chen¹, Chunlei Yu^1,3,* and Lili Hu^1,3,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, China

⁴South China University of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangzhou, China

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Yafei Wang, Yinggang Chen, Shikai Wang, Meng Wang, Lei Zhang, Suya Feng, Fei Yu, Guoping Dong, Lei Wen, Danping Chen, Chunlei Yu, Lili Hu, "Coordination engineering in Nd³⁺-doped silica glass for improving repetition rate of 920-nm ultrashort-pulse fiber laser," Adv. Photon. Nexus 2, 066002 (2023) Copy Citation Text

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Yafei Wang, Yinggang Chen, Shikai Wang, Meng Wang, Lei Zhang, Suya Feng, Fei Yu, Guoping Dong, Lei Wen, Danping Chen, Chunlei Yu, Lili Hu, "Coordination engineering in Nd³⁺-doped silica glass for improving repetition rate of 920-nm ultrashort-pulse fiber laser," Adv. Photon. Nexus 2, 066002 (2023)

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