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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 4, 452 (2019)

High power, microjoule-level diffraction-limited picosecond oscillator based on Nd:GdVO4 bulk crystal

Jie Guo¹, Wei Wang^1、2, Hua Lin¹, and Xiaoyan Liang^1、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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