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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 22, Issue 3, 031405 (2024)

Generation and observation of multiple solitons from a mid-infrared ultrafast fiber laser

Mengyuan Li¹, Yufeng Song¹, Chunxiang Zhang², Zhenhong Wang^1,**, and Jun Liu^1,*

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¹Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

²Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, China

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