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Photonics Research
Vol. 4, Issue 6, 318 (2016)

Noise-like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation with different net anomalous dispersion

Shuo Liu¹, Fengping Yan^1,*, Yang Li², Luna Zhang¹..., Zhuoya Bai¹, Hong Zhou³ and Yafei Hou⁴|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Key Laboratory of All Optical Network & Advanced Telecommunication of EMC, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

²Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China

³Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka 535-8585, Japan

⁴Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma Nara 630-0195, Japan

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Shuo Liu, Fengping Yan, Yang Li, Luna Zhang, Zhuoya Bai, Hong Zhou, Yafei Hou, "Noise-like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation with different net anomalous dispersion," Photonics Res. 4, 318 (2016) Copy Citation Text

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Shuo Liu, Fengping Yan, Yang Li, Luna Zhang, Zhuoya Bai, Hong Zhou, Yafei Hou, "Noise-like pulse generation from a thulium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation with different net anomalous dispersion," Photonics Res. 4, 318 (2016)

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