“Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

Meng Liu; Ti-Jian Li; Ai-Ping Luo; Wen-Cheng Xu; Zhi-Chao Luo

doi:10.1364/PRJ.377966

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 3, 246(2020)

“Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

Meng Liu¹, Ti-Jian Li¹, Ai-Ping Luo¹, Wen-Cheng Xu^1,2、*, and Zhi-Chao Luo^1,3、*

¹Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

²e-mail: xuwch@scnu.edu.cn

³e-mail: zcluo@scnu.edu.cn

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Sep. 16, 2019

Accepted: Dec. 16, 2019

Published Online: Feb. 10, 2020

The Author Email: Wen-Cheng Xu (xuwch@scnu.edu.cn), Zhi-Chao Luo (zcluo@scnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.377966

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