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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 2, Issue 5, 056005(2020)

Single-mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers

Uğur Teğin^1,2、*, Babak Rahmani², Eirini Kakkava¹, Demetri Psaltis¹, and Christophe Moser²

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¹École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Optics Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland

²École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Applied Photonics Devices, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Uğur Teğin, Babak Rahmani, Eirini Kakkava, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, "Single-mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers," Adv. Photon. 2, 056005 (2020)

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Jul. 17, 2020

Accepted: Sep. 17, 2020

Published Online: Oct. 22, 2020

The Author Email: Teğin Uğur (ugur.tegin@epfl.ch)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056005

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