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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 4, 423 (2019)

Revelation of the birth and extinction dynamics of solitons in SWNT-mode-locked fiber lasers

Yudong Cui¹ and Xueming Liu^{1、2、3、*}

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

²Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

³School of Physics and Electronic Science, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China

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