Intelligent soliton molecules control in an ultrafast thulium fiber laser

Yi Zhou; Kangwen Yang; Kevin K. Tsia; Heping Zeng; Kenneth K. Y. Wong

doi:10.1117/1.APN.4.1.016012

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