Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 50, Issue 8, 0850207(2021)
Review of High-power Kerr-lens Mode-locked Yb-doped All-solid-state Lasers (Invited)
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Wenlong TIAN, Rui XU, Jiangfeng ZHU, Zhiyi WEI. Review of High-power Kerr-lens Mode-locked Yb-doped All-solid-state Lasers (Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(8): 0850207
Category: Special Issue for Ultrafast Optics
Received: May. 30, 2021
Accepted: Jun. 30, 2021
Published Online: Sep. 1, 2021
The Author Email: Jiangfeng ZHU (jfzhu@xidian.edu.cn), Zhiyi WEI (zywei@iphy.ac.cn)