Electro-Optic Technology Application, Volume. 38, Issue 1, 11(2023)

Visible Rare-earth Doped Solid-state Lasers (Invited)

SUN Sijia1... TIAN Wenlong1, YANG Yunxiao1, YU Yang2, ZHU Jiangfeng1 and WEI Zhiyi3 |Show fewer author(s)
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    SUN Sijia, TIAN Wenlong, YANG Yunxiao, YU Yang, ZHU Jiangfeng, WEI Zhiyi. Visible Rare-earth Doped Solid-state Lasers (Invited)[J]. Electro-Optic Technology Application, 2023, 38(1): 11

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