Solid-state Mamyshev oscillator

Mingming Nie; Jiarong Wang; Shu-Wei Huang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.001175

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 10, 1175(2019)

Solid-state Mamyshev oscillator

Mingming Nie^1,2、*, Jiarong Wang¹, and Shu-Wei Huang^1,3、*

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA

²e-mail: Mingming.Nie@colorado.edu

³e-mail: ShuWei.Huang@colorado.edu

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: May. 14, 2019

Accepted: Aug. 26, 2019

Published Online: Sep. 27, 2019

The Author Email: Mingming Nie (Mingming.Nie@colorado.edu), Shu-Wei Huang (ShuWei.Huang@colorado.edu)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.001175

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