Multicolored sideband generation based on cascaded four-wave mixing with the assistance of spectral broadening in multiple thin plates

Peng Wang; Jun Liu; Fangjia Li; Xiong Shen; Ruxin Li

doi:10.1364/prj.3.000210

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