Research Progress of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Suppression in Narrow Linewidth Fiber Amplifiers

Ran Yang; Wang Xiaolin; Su Rongtao; Zhou Pu; Si Lei

doi:10.3788/lop52.040003

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