Real-time birth-to-annihilation dynamics of dissipative Kerr cavity soliton

Haijiao Xu; Wei Lin; Xu Hu; Yang Yang; Zongda Li; Yiqing Xu; Yuankai Guo; Dongdan Chen; Xiaoming Wei; Zhongmin Yang

doi:10.3788/COL202422.111903

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 11, 111903(2024)

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Haijiao Xu1... Wei Lin1, Xu Hu1, Yang Yang1, Zongda Li2, Yiqing Xu2, Yuankai Guo1, Dongdan Chen3, Xiaoming Wei1,3,*, and Zhongmin Yang1,34,** |Show fewer author(s)

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¹School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China

²Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

³School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research and Development Center of Special Optical Fiber Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Applied Techniques, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China

⁴Research Institute of Future Technology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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