Stable, high-average-power, continuous-wave singly resonant optical parametric oscillation based on angle-polished MgO:PPLN

ZHENG Xiong-Hua; HE Guang-Yuan; JIAO Zhong-Xing; WANG Biao

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2015.06.009

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