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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 6, 776 (2020)

Build-up dynamics in bidirectional soliton fiber lasers

Igor Kudelin¹, Srikanth Sugavanam¹, and Maria Chernysheva^2、*

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¹Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK

²Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology, Albert-Einstein srt. 9, Jena 07745, Germany

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