Research Progress of Blue-Green Single-Frequency Laser

Xiulin Peng; Changsheng Yang; Huaqiu Deng; Tianyi Tan; Xianchao Guan; Qilai Zhao; Zhouming Feng; Shanhui Xu

doi:10.3788/LOP57.071606

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