Phase conjugation lasers based on stimulated Brillouin scattering with high-power and high-energy

Adewale Akinyimika; Yulei Wang; Zhenxu Bai; Yunfei Li; Zhiwei Lu

doi:10.11884/HPLPB202133.210313

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