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Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 740(2017)

Bismuth-doped glass microsphere lasers

Zaijin Fang¹, Síle Nic Chormaic², Shanyu Wang¹, Xin Wang¹, Jibo Yu¹, Yuxuan Jiang¹, Jianrong Qiu^3,4, and Pengfei Wang^1,5、*

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¹Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

²Light-Matter Interactions Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan

³State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

⁴e-mail: qjr@zju.edu.cn

⁵Photonics Research Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Jul. 13, 2017

Accepted: Oct. 10, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

The Author Email: Pengfei Wang (pengfei.wang@dit.ie)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000740

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