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Acta Optica Sinica (Online), Volume. 2, Issue 11, 1106001(2025)

Recent Progress in High-Repetition-Rate Fiber-Based Optical Frequency Comb Technology (Invited)

Zixuan Ding, Guorui Wang, Xinxin Zhou, and Fei Xu^*

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College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu , China

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Zixuan Ding, Guorui Wang, Xinxin Zhou, Fei Xu. Recent Progress in High-Repetition-Rate Fiber-Based Optical Frequency Comb Technology (Invited)[J]. Acta Optica Sinica (Online), 2025, 2(11): 1106001

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Category: Laser and Laser Physics

Received: Feb. 11, 2025

Accepted: Mar. 24, 2025

Published Online: May. 26, 2025

The Author Email: Fei Xu (feixu@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/AOSOL250438

CSTR:32394.14.AOSOL250438

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology