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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 601(2018)

Ultraflat, broadband, and highly coherent supercontinuum generation in all-solid microstructured optical fibers with all-normal dispersion On the Cover

Chunlei Huang1,2, Meisong Liao1、*, Wanjun Bi1,2, Xia Li1, Lili Hu1, Long Zhang1, Longfei Wang1, Guanshi Qin3, Tianfeng Xue1,2, Danping Chen1, and Weiqing Gao4
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
  • 4School of Electronic Science & Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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    Chunlei Huang, Meisong Liao, Wanjun Bi, Xia Li, Lili Hu, Long Zhang, Longfei Wang, Guanshi Qin, Tianfeng Xue, Danping Chen, Weiqing Gao, "Ultraflat, broadband, and highly coherent supercontinuum generation in all-solid microstructured optical fibers with all-normal dispersion," Photonics Res. 6, 601 (2018)

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    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Jan. 26, 2018

    Accepted: Apr. 14, 2018

    Published Online: Jul. 2, 2018

    The Author Email: Meisong Liao (liaomeisong@siom.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000601

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