• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 13, Issue 6, 1680 (2025)
Yuansheng Ma1, Ziyang Zhang1, Yu Ning1, Jiangyong He1,2,*..., Pan Wang1,3,*, Yange Liu1, Bo Liu1 and Zhi Wang1,4,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 2e-mail: 9820220043@nankai.edu.cn
  • 3e-mail: pan.wang@nankai.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: zhiwang@nankai.edu.cn
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    Yuansheng Ma, Ziyang Zhang, Yu Ning, Jiangyong He, Pan Wang, Yange Liu, Bo Liu, Zhi Wang, "Collisions of heteronuclear dichromatic soliton compounds in a passively mode-locked fiber laser," Photonics Res. 13, 1680 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less
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    Yuansheng Ma, Ziyang Zhang, Yu Ning, Jiangyong He, Pan Wang, Yange Liu, Bo Liu, Zhi Wang, "Collisions of heteronuclear dichromatic soliton compounds in a passively mode-locked fiber laser," Photonics Res. 13, 1680 (2025)
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