Research Progress of New Regime Mode?Locked Fiber Lasers and Amplification and Compression Technologies

Fan Mengqiu; Xia Handing; Xu Dangpeng; Zhang Rui; Zheng Wanguo

doi:10.3788/LOP202158.0300003

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