Infrared broadband nonlinear optical limiting technology based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in As2Se3 fiber

Jian Huang; Yuangang Lu; Zhengnan Wu; Youwen Xie; Chongjun He; Junfeng Wu

doi:10.3788/COL202220.031902

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