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The smart travel era has come and requirement for high precision lidar detection technology is higher and higher. The new solid-state lidars can meet the requirements of intelligent cars in the future, with the advantages of high resolution, strong anti-active jamming ability, small volume, light weight, low cost and so on. The narrow linewidth diode laser is the perfect light source of solid-state lidars. The progress and development of narrow linewidth diode laser technique can greatly improve the application of solidstate lidar. The technology and development status of narrow linewidth diode lasers has been described detailly in the paper. And the design ideas, key fabrication technologies and optical characteristics of various narrow linewidth diode lasers have been analyzed and discussed as well. Finally, the developments of narrow linewidth diode lasers are prospected.

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This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFB0405100, 2016YFE0126800), Chinese Academy of Sciences Frontier Science Key Research Project (Grant No. QYZDY-SSW-ZSC006), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61727822, 61674148, 11604328, 51672264), Science and Technology Development Project of Jilin Province (Grant Nos. 20160520017JH, 20170623024TC).

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    Xingkai Lang, Peng Jia, Yongyi Chen, Li Qin, Lei Liang, Chao Chen, Yubing Wang, Xiaonan Shan, Yongqiang Ning & Lijun Wang

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Lang, X., Jia, P., Chen, Y. et al. Advances in narrow linewidth diode lasers. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 62, 61401 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-019-9870-0

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