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Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 3, Issue 4, 046012(2024)

Stable high-peak-power fiber supercontinuum generation for adaptive femtosecond biophotonics

Geng Wang^1,2, Jindou Shi^1,2, Rishyashring R. Iyer^1,2, Janet E. Sorrells^1,3, and Haohua Tu^1,2、*

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¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Urbana, Illinois, United States

²University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, Illinois, United States

³University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Bioengineering, Urbana, Illinois, United States

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Apr. 20, 2024

Accepted: Jun. 27, 2024

Published Online: Jul. 19, 2024

The Author Email: Haohua Tu (htu@illinois.edu)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.3.4.046012

CSTR:32397.14.1.APN.3.4.046012

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