Spectrally flat supercontinuum generation in a holmium-doped ZBLAN fiber with record power ratio beyond 3 μm

Linyong Yang; Bin Zhang; Ke Yin; Tianyi Wu; Yijun Zhao; Jing Hou

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000417

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