Recent progress of adaptive beam cleanup of solid-state slab lasers in Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dong Lizhi; Xu Bing; Yang Ping; Chen Shanqiu; Liu Wenjin; Tang Guomao; Tan Yi; Wang Shuai; He Xing; Lai Boheng; Yu Xin

doi:10.12086/oee.2018.170539

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