Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 1, 0116003(2024)
Research Progress of New Deep Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Invited)
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Shilie Pan, Fangfang Zhang. Research Progress of New Deep Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Invited)[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(1): 0116003
Category: Materials
Received: Dec. 1, 2023
Accepted: Dec. 16, 2023
Published Online: Feb. 6, 2024
The Author Email: Pan Shilie (slpan@ms.xjb.ac.cn)