Recent progress in beam steering by fiber laser phased arrays

Bowang Shu; Yuqiu Zhang; Hongxiang Chang; Qi Chang; Jinyong Leng; Pengfei Ma; Pu Zhou

doi:10.3788/IRLA20230250

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