Fabrication of Highly Transparent Co:MgAl2O4 Ceramic Saturable Absorber for Passive Q-switching in 1.5 μm

Yanqiu JING; Qiang LIU; Sha SU; Xiaoying LI; Ziyu LIU; Jingya WANG; Jiang LI

doi:10.15541/jim20200679

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