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Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 10, 2123(2024)

Widely tunable mid-infrared fiber-feedback optical parametric oscillator

Tingting Yu¹, Jianan Fang¹, Kun Huang^1,2,3、*, and Heping Zeng^1,2,4,5,6

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401121, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁴Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangyang Bay Laboratory, Chongqing 400064, China

⁵Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁶e-mail: hpzeng@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: May. 28, 2024

Accepted: Jul. 15, 2024

Published Online: Sep. 5, 2024

The Author Email: Kun Huang (khuang@lps.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.531271

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