Study on femtosecond chirped-pulse amplification based on concentric stretcher

Hao YANG; Hao TENG; Renchong LYU; Jiangfeng ZHU; Zhiyi WEI

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2022.04.011

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