Progress of optically pumped GaSb based semiconductor disk laser

Shili Shu; Guanyu Hou; Jian Feng; Lijie Wang; Sicong Tian; Cunzhu Tong; Lijun Wang

doi:10.29026/oea.2018.170003

Opto-Electronic Advances, Volume. 1, Issue 2, 170003(2018)

Progress of optically pumped GaSb based semiconductor disk laser

Shili Shu... Guanyu Hou, Jian Feng, Lijie Wang, Sicong Tian, Cunzhu Tong* and Lijun Wang |Show fewer author(s)

State Key Lab of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China

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Shili Shu, Guanyu Hou, Jian Feng, Lijie Wang, Sicong Tian, Cunzhu Tong, Lijun Wang. Progress of optically pumped GaSb based semiconductor disk laser[J]. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2018, 1(2): 170003

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Category: Review

Received: Dec. 27, 2017

Accepted: Feb. 28, 2018

Published Online: Aug. 1, 2018

The Author Email: Tong Cunzhu (tongcz@ciomp.ac.cn)

DOI:10.29026/oea.2018.170003

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