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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 2, Issue 5, 056005 (2020)

Single-mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers

Uğur Teğin^1、2、*, Babak Rahmani², Eirini Kakkava¹, Demetri Psaltis¹, and Christophe Moser²

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¹École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Optics Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland

²École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Applied Photonics Devices, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Uğur Teğin, Babak Rahmani, Eirini Kakkava, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser. Single-mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(5): 056005 Copy Citation Text

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Uğur Teğin, Babak Rahmani, Eirini Kakkava, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser. Single-mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(5): 056005

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