Narrow vertical beam divergence angle for display applications of 645 nm lasers

Yufei Jia; Yufei Wang; Xuyan Zhou; Linhai Xu; Pijie Ma; Jingxuan Chen; Hongwei Qu; Wanhua Zheng

doi:10.3788/COL202119.101401

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