Dissipative Kerr single soliton generation with extremely high probability via spectral mode depletion

Boqing Zhang; Nuo Chen; Xinda Lu; Yuntian Chen; Xinliang Zhang; Jing Xu

doi:10.1007/s12200-022-00047-y

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