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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 7, 798(2019)

Acousto-optic tunable ultrafast laser with vector-mode-coupling-induced polarization conversion

Yujia Li1, Ligang Huang1、*, Haonan Han1, Lei Gao1, Yulong Cao1, Yuan Gong2, Wending Zhang3, Feng Gao4, Iroegbu Paul Ikechukwu1, and Tao Zhu1,5
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology & Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
  • 3MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under Extraordinary Conditions and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
  • 4MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China
  • 5e-mail: zhutao@cqu.edu.cn
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    Category: Ultrafast Optics

    Received: Mar. 6, 2019

    Accepted: May. 13, 2019

    Published Online: Jun. 21, 2019

    The Author Email: Ligang Huang (lghuang@cqu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000798

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