Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 2, 021401(2023)
Wavelength-tunable multi-point pump semiconductor disk laser based on an intra-cavity transmission grating
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Jian Feng, Cunzhu Tong, Yufei Zhao, Andreas Popp, Berthold Schmidt, Lijie Wang, Bo Meng, Huanyu Lu, Yanjing Wang, Xin Zhang, Lijun Wang, "Wavelength-tunable multi-point pump semiconductor disk laser based on an intra-cavity transmission grating," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 021401 (2023)
Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
Received: Jun. 15, 2022
Accepted: Aug. 12, 2022
Posted: Aug. 15, 2022
Published Online: Sep. 21, 2022
The Author Email: Cunzhu Tong (tongcz@ciomp.ac.cn)