More Than 8 kW Fiber Laser Amplifier with High Beam Quality Enabled by Counter Tandem Pumping Scheme

Ruixian Li; Hanshuo Wu; Hu Xiao; Jinyong Leng; Pu Zhou

doi:10.3788/AOS202242.1436001

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