All-fiber and self-starting Yb-doped Mamyshev oscillator based on nonlinear polarization evolution

Zecong Li; Kai Wang; Zinan Huang; Qianqian Huang; Yanlü Lin; Weixi Li; Zhichao Luo; Chengbo Mou

doi:10.3788/COL202422.121404

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 12, 121404(2024)

All-fiber and self-starting Yb-doped Mamyshev oscillator based on nonlinear polarization evolution

Zecong Li¹, Kai Wang¹, Zinan Huang^1,2, Qianqian Huang¹, Yanlü Lin¹, Weixi Li¹, Zhichao Luo^3、**, and Chengbo Mou^1、*

¹Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

²Key Laboratory of Space Active Opto-Electronics Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China

³Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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