Widely tunable 2 µm optical vortex from a Tm:YAP laser

Jingjing Zhou; Changsheng Zheng; Bin Chen; Ning Zhang; Qinggang Gao; Hangqi Yuan; Daiwen Jia; Zhanxin Wang; Shande Liu; Yuping Zhang; Huiyun Zhang; Yongguang Zhao

doi:10.3788/COL202321.021405

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 2, 021405(2023)

Widely tunable 2 µm optical vortex from a Tm:YAP laser

Jingjing Zhou¹, Changsheng Zheng¹, Bin Chen^2,3, Ning Zhang^2,3, Qinggang Gao^2,3, Hangqi Yuan¹, Daiwen Jia¹, Zhanxin Wang^1、*, Shande Liu², Yuping Zhang², Huiyun Zhang², and Yongguang Zhao^1,3、**

Author Affiliations

¹Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China

²College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China

³Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Laser Technology and Emerging Industry, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China

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