• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 49, Issue 11, 34 (2020)
Yi-shan WANG1, Feng-yan ZHAO2, Hu-shan WANG1, Xiao-hong HU1, Wei ZHANG1, Ting ZHANG1, and Ye FENG1
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an709, China
  • 2School of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou350118, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20204911.1149003 Cite this Article
    Yi-shan WANG, Feng-yan ZHAO, Hu-shan WANG, Xiao-hong HU, Wei ZHANG, Ting ZHANG, Ye FENG. Research Status and Development of Graded-index Multi-mode Fiber Mode-locking Technique (Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2020, 49(11): 34 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Yi-shan WANG, Feng-yan ZHAO, Hu-shan WANG, Xiao-hong HU, Wei ZHANG, Ting ZHANG, Ye FENG. Research Status and Development of Graded-index Multi-mode Fiber Mode-locking Technique (Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2020, 49(11): 34
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