Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 7, 071401(2021)
Experimental observation of transient mode-locking in the build-up stage of a soliton fiber laser
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Yinqi Wang, Xiaoyue Wang, Junsong Peng, Ming Yan, Kun Huang, Heping Zeng, "Experimental observation of transient mode-locking in the build-up stage of a soliton fiber laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 071401 (2021)
Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics
Received: Oct. 21, 2020
Accepted: Dec. 5, 2020
Published Online: Mar. 30, 2021
The Author Email: Ming Yan (myan@lps.ecnu.edu.cn), Kun Huang (khuang@lps.ecnu.edu.cn)