Generation of coexisting high-energy pulses in a mode-locked all-fiber laser with a nonlinear multimodal interference technique

Guangwei Chen; Wenlei Li; Guomei Wang; Wenfu Zhang; Chao Zeng; Wei Zhao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000187

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 2, 187(2019)

Generation of coexisting high-energy pulses in a mode-locked all-fiber laser with a nonlinear multimodal interference technique

Guangwei Chen^1,2, Wenlei Li^1,2, Guomei Wang^1,2, Wenfu Zhang^1,2, Chao Zeng^1,2,3、*, and Wei Zhao^1,2,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing 100049, China

³e-mail: zengchao@opt.cn

⁴e-mail: weiz@opt.ac.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Oct. 30, 2018

Accepted: Dec. 17, 2018

Published Online: Feb. 19, 2019

The Author Email: Chao Zeng (zengchao@opt.cn), Wei Zhao (weiz@opt.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000187

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