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Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 3, 0111(2016)

Dark solitons in WS2 erbium-doped fiber lasers

Wenjun Liu1,2, Lihui Pang2, Hainian Han2, Zhongwei Shen2, Ming Lei1, Hao Teng2, and Zhiyi Wei2、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, School of Science, P. O. Box 91, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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    Wenjun Liu, Lihui Pang, Hainian Han, Zhongwei Shen, Ming Lei, Hao Teng, Zhiyi Wei, "Dark solitons in WS2 erbium-doped fiber lasers," Photonics Res. 4, 0111 (2016)

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    Special Issue: TERAHERTZ PHOTONICS: APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES

    Received: Feb. 3, 2016

    Accepted: Mar. 11, 2016

    Published Online: Sep. 29, 2016

    The Author Email: Zhiyi Wei (zywei@iphy.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/prj.4.000111

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