Generation of single solitons tunable from 3 to 3.8 μm in cascaded Er3+-doped and Dy3+-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers

Linpeng Yu; Jinhui Liang; Shiting Huang; Jinzhang Wang; Jiachen Wang; Xing Luo; Peiguang Yan; Fanlong Dong; Xing Liu; Qitao Lue; Chunyu Guo; Shuangchen Ruan

doi:10.1364/PRJ.463613

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