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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 2, Issue 2, 026002 (2020)

All-fiber ultrafast laser generating gigahertz-rate pulses based on a hybrid plasmonic microfiber resonator

Zi-xuan Ding¹, Zi-nan Huang², Ye Chen¹, Cheng-bo Mou^2、*, Yan-qing Lu^1、*, and Fei Xu^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing, China

²Shanghai University, Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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Zi-xuan Ding, Zi-nan Huang, Ye Chen, Cheng-bo Mou, Yan-qing Lu, Fei Xu. All-fiber ultrafast laser generating gigahertz-rate pulses based on a hybrid plasmonic microfiber resonator[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(2): 026002 Copy Citation Text

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Zi-xuan Ding, Zi-nan Huang, Ye Chen, Cheng-bo Mou, Yan-qing Lu, Fei Xu. All-fiber ultrafast laser generating gigahertz-rate pulses based on a hybrid plasmonic microfiber resonator[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(2): 026002

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