Spectral-furcated vector soliton in birefringence-managed fiber lasers

Zhiwen He; Dong Mao; Yueqing Du; Qun Gao; Chao Zeng; Changchi Yuan; Jianlin Zhao

doi:10.3788/COL202321.071402

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 7, 071402(2023)

Spectral-furcated vector soliton in birefringence-managed fiber lasers

Zhiwen He... Dong Mao*, Yueqing Du, Qun Gao, Chao Zeng, Changchi Yuan and Jianlin Zhao |Show fewer author(s)

Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology; School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

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Zhiwen He, Dong Mao, Yueqing Du, Qun Gao, Chao Zeng, Changchi Yuan, Jianlin Zhao, "Spectral-furcated vector soliton in birefringence-managed fiber lasers," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 071402 (2023)

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