Design and Experimental Investigation of Yb∶YAG Thin-Disc Multipass Laser Amplifier

Enmao Song; Guangzhi Zhu; Hailin Wang; Zhengyuan Li; Aleksei Kozlov; Xiao Zhu

doi:10.3788/AOS201939.1214001

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