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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 10, 101901(2025)

One-step generation of a visible to deep-ultraviolet tunable laser from a near-infrared ultrafast light source

Xuezhi Zhao, Guowei Liu, Fei Liang, Huaijin Zhang, Xinguang Xu, Haohai Yu^*, and Zhengping Wang^**

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State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

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Xuezhi Zhao, Guowei Liu, Fei Liang, Huaijin Zhang, Xinguang Xu, Haohai Yu, Zhengping Wang, "One-step generation of a visible to deep-ultraviolet tunable laser from a near-infrared ultrafast light source," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 101901 (2025)

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Apr. 2, 2025

Accepted: Jun. 3, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 9, 2025

The Author Email: Haohai Yu (haohaiyu@sdu.edu.cn), Zhengping Wang (zpwang@sdu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.101901

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.101901

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