High-Peak-Power Acoustic-Optic Q-Switched Solid-State Laser with Hermite-Gaussian Modes

Tianhong Lian; Lei Yang; Jiahua Zhu; Ke Kou; Zeyu Zhang; Mingxing Jiao; Shiyu Wang

doi:10.3788/AOS202242.0714001

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