Soliton Collisions in Ytterbium‑Doped Passively Mode‑Locked Fiber Laser

Zhezhe Li; Jiangyong He; Jin Li; Shihai Wang; Congcong Liu; Yu Ning; Pan Wang; Yange Liu; Zhi Wang

doi:10.3788/CJL240971

Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 51, Issue 18, 1801003(2024)

Soliton Collisions in Ytterbium‑Doped Passively Mode‑Locked Fiber Laser

Zhezhe Li, Jiangyong He, Jin Li, Shihai Wang, Congcong Liu, Yu Ning, Pan Wang, Yange Liu, and Zhi Wang^*

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

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Zhezhe Li, Jiangyong He, Jin Li, Shihai Wang, Congcong Liu, Yu Ning, Pan Wang, Yange Liu, Zhi Wang. Soliton Collisions in Ytterbium‑Doped Passively Mode‑Locked Fiber Laser[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2024, 51(18): 1801003

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Paper Information

Category: laser devices and laser physics

Received: Jun. 17, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 12, 2024

Published Online: Sep. 9, 2024

The Author Email: Wang Zhi (zhiwang@nankai.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/CJL240971

CSTR:32183.14.CJL240971

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