Broadband and Coherent Supercontinuum Generation in All-Normal-Dispersion Double-Clad Ge-As-Se-Te Fiber Taper

Yingying Wang; Nan Zhang; Peiqing Zhang; Xunsi Wang; Shixun Dai

doi:10.3788/CJL202249.0101010

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