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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 11, 111401(2023)

Nd:YAG linearly polarized laser based on polarization eigenmodes

Jing Wang^1,2, Kaifei Tang¹, Bingxuan Li^1,2,3、*, and Ge Zhang^1,2,3、**

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¹Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Fujian Science and Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics

Received: May. 25, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 6, 2023

Posted: Jul. 6, 2023

Published Online: Nov. 13, 2023

The Author Email: Bingxuan Li (libingxuan@fjirsm.ac.cn), Ge Zhang (zhg@fjirsm.ac.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.111401

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