Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 3, 031407(2022)
Large-range alignment-free distributed-cavity laser based on an improved multi-lens retroreflector
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Junjie Liu, Aihua Wang, Quan Sheng, Yue Qi, Sijia Wang, Meng Wang, Degang Xu, Shijie Fu, Wei Shi, Jianquan Yao, "Large-range alignment-free distributed-cavity laser based on an improved multi-lens retroreflector," Chin. Opt. Lett. 20, 031407 (2022)
Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
Received: Nov. 19, 2021
Accepted: Dec. 29, 2021
Posted: Dec. 30, 2021
Published Online: Mar. 10, 2022
The Author Email: Quan Sheng (shengquan@tju.edu.cn), Wei Shi (shiwei@tju.edu.cn)