• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 9, Issue 4, 530 (2021)
Kewei Liu1, Xiaosheng Xiao2、3、*, and Changxi Yang1、4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 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, School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 3e-mail: xsxiao@bupt.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: cxyang@tsinghua.edu.cn
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    Kewei Liu, Xiaosheng Xiao, Changxi Yang. Observation of transition between multimode Q-switching and spatiotemporal mode locking[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(4): 530
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