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Runzhi CHEN, Yuting XING, Yao ZHANG, Dongliang WANG, Junli WANG, Zhiyi WEI, Guoqing CHANG. Nonlinear Amplification Techniques for Ultrafast Fiber Lasers（Invited）[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(7): 0751415

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Category: Special Issue for the 60th Anniversary of XIOPM of CAS, and the 50th Anniversary of the Acta Photonica Sinica

Received: May. 15, 2022

Accepted: Jun. 20, 2022

Published Online: Oct. 25, 2022

The Author Email: CHANG Guoqing (guoqing.chang@iphy.ac.cn)

DOI:10.3788/gzxb20225107.0751415

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