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Photonics Research
Vol. 12, Issue 10, 2123 (2024)

Widely tunable mid-infrared fiber-feedback optical parametric oscillator

Tingting Yu¹, Jianan Fang¹, Kun Huang^1,2,3,*, and Heping Zeng^1,2,4,5,6

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401121, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁴Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangyang Bay Laboratory, Chongqing 400064, China

⁵Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁶e-mail: hpzeng@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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