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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 3, 246(2020)

“Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

Meng Liu1, Ti-Jian Li1, Ai-Ping Luo1, Wen-Cheng Xu1,2、*, and Zhi-Chao Luo1,3、*
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  • 1Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 2e-mail: xuwch@scnu.edu.cn
  • 3e-mail: zcluo@scnu.edu.cn
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    Meng Liu, Ti-Jian Li, Ai-Ping Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu, Zhi-Chao Luo. “Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(3): 246

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Sep. 16, 2019

    Accepted: Dec. 16, 2019

    Published Online: Feb. 10, 2020

    The Author Email: Wen-Cheng Xu (xuwch@scnu.edu.cn), Zhi-Chao Luo (zcluo@scnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.377966

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