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Polarization-maintaining, rod-type, ytterbium-doped, multi-core fiber for high power operation
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See Visualization 1 in Opt. Express 34(2), 2478-2487(2026)
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| Development of a simplified dual-pump dual-broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering system (Appl. Opt.) |
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| Beyond photon pairs—nonlinear quantum photonics in the high-gain regime: a tutorial (Adv. Opt. Photon.) |
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| Bringing short-lived dissipative Kerr soliton states in microresonators into a steady state (Opt. Express) |
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| Optical tweezers — from calibration to applications: a tutorial (Adv. Opt. Photon.) |
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| Equivalent functions for the Fresnel integral (Opt. Express) |
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Applied Optics
Summary by Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán
In this work, the authors propose a wireless communication system based on light beams endowed with Orbital Angular...
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Summary by Matthew D. Lew
A longstanding but largely unnoticed modeling gap has been skewing how researchers interpret the behavior of single...
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This study designed an ultra-sensitive refractive index optical sensor made from an all-dielectric metasurface. The key...
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