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Photonics Research
Vol. 9, Issue 3, 289 (2021)

Real-time collision dynamics of vector solitons in a fiber laser

Kangjun Zhao¹, Chenxin Gao¹, Xiaosheng Xiao², and Changxi Yang^1、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

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