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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 10, 1566(2020)

Breathing dissipative soliton explosions in a bidirectional ultrafast fiber laser

Yi Zhou, Yu-Xuan Ren, Jiawei Shi, and Kenneth K. Y. Wong^*

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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Jun. 10, 2020

Accepted: Aug. 10, 2020

Published Online: Sep. 15, 2020

The Author Email: Kenneth K. Y. Wong (kywong@eee.hku.hk)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.399998

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