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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 19, Issue 7, 072201 (2021)

Self-aligned fiber-based dual-beam source for STED nanolithography

Jian Chen, Guoliang Chen, and Qiwen Zhan^*

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School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 201800, China

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