Revealing the dynamics of intensity fluctuation transfer in a random Raman fiber laser

Jun Ye; Xiaoya Ma; Yang Zhang; Jiangming Xu; Hanwei Zhang; Tianfu Yao; Jinyong Leng; Pu Zhou

doi:10.1364/PRJ.445432

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