Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 48, Issue 5, 0501008(2021)
Recent Progress of Optical-Superlattice-Based Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators
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Hongkun Nie, Jian Ning, Baitao Zhang, Kejian Yang, Gang Zhao, Xinjie Lü, Jingliang He. Recent Progress of Optical-Superlattice-Based Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2021, 48(5): 0501008
Category: laser devices and laser physics
Received: Nov. 3, 2020
Accepted: Dec. 21, 2020
Published Online: Mar. 16, 2021
The Author Email: Zhang Baitao (btzhang@sdu.edu.cn)