Research Progress on Blue LD-Pumped Rare Earths Doped Visible Fiber Lasers

Liaolin Zhang; Siyu Zhu; Jianan Huang; Jia Liu; Jianhui Huang; Weixiong You

doi:10.3788/LOP202259.1516016

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