Wavelength switchable and tunable single-frequency narrow linewidth ytterbium doped fiber laser (Invited)

Xiangrui Meng; Han Wen; Haowei Chen; Bo Sun; Baole Lu; Jintao Bai

doi:10.3788/IRLA20220325

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