The formation of various multi-soliton patterns and noise-like pulse in a fiber laser passively mode-locked by a topological insulator based saturable absorber

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Yu ^a   Wu, Man ^a   Tang, Pinghua ^a   Chen, Shuqing ^a   Du, Juan ^a   Jiang, Guobao ^a   Li, Ying ^b   Zhao, Chujun ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Wen, Shuangchun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fiber laser; multi soliton pattern; noise like soliton; topological insulator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899020128     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: 1612202X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1612-2011/11/5/055101     Document Type: Article

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