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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 3, 246 (2020)

“Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

Meng Liu¹, Ti-Jian Li¹, Ai-Ping Luo¹, Wen-Cheng Xu^1、2、*, and Zhi-Chao Luo^1、3、*

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¹Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

²e-mail: xuwch@scnu.edu.cn

³e-mail: zcluo@scnu.edu.cn

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Meng Liu, Ti-Jian Li, Ai-Ping Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu, Zhi-Chao Luo. “Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(3): 246 Copy Citation Text

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Meng Liu, Ti-Jian Li, Ai-Ping Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu, Zhi-Chao Luo. “Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(3): 246

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