Beam quality improvement of the high-energy KTA-OPO based on a confocal unstable cavity with Gaussian reflectivity mirror

Jun Meng; Chen Li; Zhenhua Cong; Zhigang Zhao; Shang Wang; Gaoyou Liu; Zhaojun Liu

doi:10.3788/COL202321.051401

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