High Power Picosecond Thulium-doped Fiber MOPA with a High Energy Soliton Seed

CHEN Rong; YANG Jian-long; QI Xiang-ning; XU Jian-qiu; TANG Yu-long

doi:10.3788/gzxb20164510.1023001

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