Bursts with shape-alterable pulses in a compact Tm-doped fiber laser with simultaneous active intracavity phase and intensity modulations

Xiong Wang; Pu Zhou; Xiaolin Wang; Hu Xiao; and Zejin Liu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.2.000172

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