Research on Picosecond Laser Regenerative Amplifier Based on Thin-Disk Gain Medium

Jing Dong; Hantian Chen; Hailin Wang; Xianshi Jia; Guangzhi Zhu; Kozlov Aleksei; Xiao Zhu

doi:10.3788/AOS202141.1414003

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