Intracavity third-harmonic generation in a continuous-wave/self-mode-locked semiconductor disk laser

Chunling Li; Jia Cheng; Renjiang Zhu; Tao Wang; Lidan Jiang; Cunzhu Tong; Yanrong Song; Peng Zhang

doi:10.3788/COL202321.051404

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