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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 1, 65 (2020)

Ultrabroadband, few-cycle pulses directly from a Mamyshev fiber oscillator

Chunyang Ma^1、2, Ankita Khanolkar³, Yimin Zang³, and Andy Chong^2、3、*

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¹Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

²Department of Physics, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469, USA

³Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469, USA

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