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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 7, 071402(2024)

Low-noise compact fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization evolution in an all-polarization-maintaining figure-8 cavity

Lian Zhou, Daping Luo, Gehui Xie^**, Shiping Xiong, Haipeng Lou, Zilin Zhao, Yuanfeng Di, Chenglin Gu, and Wenxue Li^*

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State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

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Lian Zhou, Daping Luo, Gehui Xie, Shiping Xiong, Haipeng Lou, Zilin Zhao, Yuanfeng Di, Chenglin Gu, Wenxue Li, "Low-noise compact fiber laser based on nonlinear polarization evolution in an all-polarization-maintaining figure-8 cavity," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 071402 (2024)

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics

Received: Dec. 23, 2023

Accepted: Mar. 28, 2024

Published Online: Jul. 25, 2024

The Author Email: Gehui Xie (ghxie@lps.ecnu.edu.cn), Wenxue Li (wxli@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.071402

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.071402

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

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