Megawatt peak power from a Mamyshev oscillator

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[Crossref]

V. G. Bucklew, W. H. Renninger, P. S. Edwards, and Z. Liu, “Iteratively seeded mode-locking,” Opt. Express 25, 13481–13493 (2017).

T. Northa and C. S. Bres, “Regenerative similariton laser,” APL Photon. 1, 021302 (2016).
[Crossref]

A. M. Perogo, N. Tarasov, D. V. Churkin, S. K. Turisyn, and K. Staliunas, “Pattern generation by dissipative parametric instability,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 028701 (2016).
[Crossref]

N. Tarasov, A. M. Perego, D. V. Churkin, K. Staliunas, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Mode-locking via dissipative Faraday instability,” Nat. Commun. 7, 12441 (2016).
[Crossref]

W. H. Renninger and F. W. Wise, “Fundamental limits to mode-locked lasers: toward terawatt peak powers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 21, 1100208 (2015).
[Crossref]

A. Chong, L. G. Wright, and F. W. Wise, “Ultrafast fiber lasers based on self-similar pulse evolution: a review of current progress,” Rep. Prog. Phys. 78, 113901 (2015).
[Crossref]

J. Szczepanek, T. M. Kardaś, M. Michalska, C. Radzewicz, and Y. Stepanenko, “Simple all-PM-fiber laser mode-locked with a nonlinear loop mirror,” Opt. Lett. 40, 3500–3503 (2015).
[Crossref]

K. Regelskis, J. Zeludevicius, K. Viskontas, and G. Raciukaitis, “Ytterbium-doped fiber ultrashort pulse generator based on self-phase modulation and alternating spectral filtering,” Opt. Lett. 40, 5255–5258 (2015).
[Crossref]

T. North and M. Rochette, “Regenerative self-pulsating sources of large bandwidths,” Opt. Lett. 39, 174–177 (2014).
[Crossref]

T. Herr, V. Brasch, J. D. Jost, C. Y. Wang, N. M. Kondratiev, M. L. Gorodetsky, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Temporal solitons in optical microresonators,” Nat. Photonics 8, 145–152 (2014).
[Crossref]

Y. K. Chembo and C. R. Menyuk, “Spatiotemporal Lugiato-Lefever formalism for Kerr-comb generation in whispering-gallery-mode resonators,” Phys. Rev. A 87, 053852 (2013).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, R. Hawker, A. F. J. Runge, M. Erkintalo, and N. G. R. Broderick, “120  fs, 4.2  nJ pulses from an all-normal-dispersion, polarization-maintaining, fiber laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 121111 (2013).
[Crossref]

S. Coen and M. Erkintalo, “Universal scaling laws of Kerr frequency combs,” Opt. Lett. 38, 1790–1792 (2013).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, N. G. R. Broderick, M. Erkintalo, J. S. Y. Chen, and V. Kruglov, “Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror,” Opt. Express 20, 10545–10551 (2012).
[Crossref]

B. Nie, D. Pestov, F. W. Wise, and M. Dantus, “Generation of 42-fs and 10-nJ pulses from a fiber laser with self-similar evolution in the gain segment,” Opt. Express 19, 12074–12080 (2011).
[Crossref]

F. Leo, S. Coen, P. Kockaert, S.-P. Gorza, P. Emplit, and M. Haelterman, “Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer,” Nat. Photonics 4, 471–476 (2010).
[Crossref]

W. H. Renniger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, “Self-similar pulse evolution in an all-normal-dispersion laser,” Phys. Rev. A 82, 021805 (2010).
[Crossref]

C. Finot, J. Dudley, B. Kibler, D. Richardson, and G. Millot, “Optical parabolic pulse generation and applications,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 45, 1482–1489 (2009).
[Crossref]

K. Sun, M. Rochette, and L. R. Chen, “Output characterization of a self-pulsating and aperiodic optical fiber source based on cascaded regeneration,” Opt. Express 17, 10419–10432 (2009).
[Crossref]

A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “Environmentally stable all-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Lett. 33, 1071–1073 (2008).
[Crossref]

S. Pitois, C. Finot, L. Provost, and D. J. Richardson, “Generation of localized pulses from incoherent wave in optical fiber lines made of concatenated Mamyshev regenerators,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, 1537–1547 (2008).
[Crossref]

R. R. Gattass and E. Mazur, “Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials,” Nat. Photonics 2, 219–225 (2008).
[Crossref]

L. Provost, C. Finot, P. Petropoulos, K. Mukasa, and D. J. Richardson, “Design scaling rules for 2R-optical self-phase modulation-based regenerators,” Opt. Express 15, 5100–5113 (2007).
[Crossref]

A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20  nJ,” Opt. Lett. 32, 2408–2410 (2007).
[Crossref]

A. Chong, J. Buckley, W. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Express 14, 10095–10100 (2006).
[Crossref]

C. Finot, S. Pitois, and G. Millot, “Regenerative 40 Gbit/s wavelength converter based on similariton generation,” Opt. Lett. 30, 1776–1778 (2005).
[Crossref]

A. Fernandez, T. Fuji, A. Poppe, A. Fürbach, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, “Chirped-pulse oscillators: a route to highpower femtosecond pulses without external amplification,” Opt. Lett. 29, 1366–1368 (2004).
[Crossref]

F. O. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, W. G. Clark, and F. W. Wise, “Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902 (2004).
[Crossref]

W. R. Zipfel, R. M. Williams, and W. W. Webb, “Nonlinear magic: multiphoton microscopy in the biosciences,” Nat. Biotechnol. 21, 1369–1377 (2003).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

M. Piche, “Mode locking through nonlinear frequency broadening and spectral filtering,” Proc. SPIE, 2041, 358–365 (1994).

U. Keller, T. H. Chiu, and J. F. Ferguson, “Self-starting femtosecond mode-locked Nd:glass laser that uses intracavity saturable absorbers,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1077–1079 (1993).

K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson, “77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1080–1082 (1993).
[Crossref]

L. F. Mollenauer and R. H. Stolen, “The soliton laser,” Opt. Lett. 9, 13–15 (1984).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, R. Hawker, A. F. J. Runge, M. Erkintalo, and N. G. R. Broderick, “120  fs, 4.2  nJ pulses from an all-normal-dispersion, polarization-maintaining, fiber laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 121111 (2013).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, N. G. R. Broderick, M. Erkintalo, J. S. Y. Chen, and V. Kruglov, “Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror,” Opt. Express 20, 10545–10551 (2012).
[Crossref]

A. Fernandez, T. Fuji, A. Poppe, A. Fürbach, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, “Chirped-pulse oscillators: a route to highpower femtosecond pulses without external amplification,” Opt. Lett. 29, 1366–1368 (2004).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

I. Samartsev, A. Bordenyuk, and V. Gapontsev, “Environmentally stable seed source for high power ultrafast laser,” Proc. SPIE 10085, 100850S (2017).
[Crossref]

T. Herr, V. Brasch, J. D. Jost, C. Y. Wang, N. M. Kondratiev, M. L. Gorodetsky, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Temporal solitons in optical microresonators,” Nat. Photonics 8, 145–152 (2014).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

T. Northa and C. S. Bres, “Regenerative similariton laser,” APL Photon. 1, 021302 (2016).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, R. Hawker, A. F. J. Runge, M. Erkintalo, and N. G. R. Broderick, “120  fs, 4.2  nJ pulses from an all-normal-dispersion, polarization-maintaining, fiber laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 121111 (2013).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, N. G. R. Broderick, M. Erkintalo, J. S. Y. Chen, and V. Kruglov, “Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror,” Opt. Express 20, 10545–10551 (2012).
[Crossref]

V. G. Bucklew, W. H. Renninger, P. S. Edwards, and Z. Liu, “Iteratively seeded mode-locking,” Opt. Express 25, 13481–13493 (2017).

A. Chong, J. Buckley, W. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Express 14, 10095–10100 (2006).
[Crossref]

F. O. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, W. G. Clark, and F. W. Wise, “Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902 (2004).
[Crossref]

Y. K. Chembo and C. R. Menyuk, “Spatiotemporal Lugiato-Lefever formalism for Kerr-comb generation in whispering-gallery-mode resonators,” Phys. Rev. A 87, 053852 (2013).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, N. G. R. Broderick, M. Erkintalo, J. S. Y. Chen, and V. Kruglov, “Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror,” Opt. Express 20, 10545–10551 (2012).
[Crossref]

K. Sun, M. Rochette, and L. R. Chen, “Output characterization of a self-pulsating and aperiodic optical fiber source based on cascaded regeneration,” Opt. Express 17, 10419–10432 (2009).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, T. H. Chiu, and J. F. Ferguson, “Self-starting femtosecond mode-locked Nd:glass laser that uses intracavity saturable absorbers,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1077–1079 (1993).

A. Chong, L. G. Wright, and F. W. Wise, “Ultrafast fiber lasers based on self-similar pulse evolution: a review of current progress,” Rep. Prog. Phys. 78, 113901 (2015).
[Crossref]

W. H. Renniger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, “Self-similar pulse evolution in an all-normal-dispersion laser,” Phys. Rev. A 82, 021805 (2010).
[Crossref]

A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “Environmentally stable all-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Lett. 33, 1071–1073 (2008).
[Crossref]

A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20  nJ,” Opt. Lett. 32, 2408–2410 (2007).
[Crossref]

A. Chong, J. Buckley, W. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Express 14, 10095–10100 (2006).
[Crossref]

A. M. Perogo, N. Tarasov, D. V. Churkin, S. K. Turisyn, and K. Staliunas, “Pattern generation by dissipative parametric instability,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 028701 (2016).
[Crossref]

N. Tarasov, A. M. Perego, D. V. Churkin, K. Staliunas, and S. K. Turitsyn, “Mode-locking via dissipative Faraday instability,” Nat. Commun. 7, 12441 (2016).
[Crossref]

F. O. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, W. G. Clark, and F. W. Wise, “Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902 (2004).
[Crossref]

S. Coen and M. Erkintalo, “Universal scaling laws of Kerr frequency combs,” Opt. Lett. 38, 1790–1792 (2013).
[Crossref]

F. Leo, S. Coen, P. Kockaert, S.-P. Gorza, P. Emplit, and M. Haelterman, “Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer,” Nat. Photonics 4, 471–476 (2010).
[Crossref]

B. Nie, D. Pestov, F. W. Wise, and M. Dantus, “Generation of 42-fs and 10-nJ pulses from a fiber laser with self-similar evolution in the gain segment,” Opt. Express 19, 12074–12080 (2011).
[Crossref]

C. Finot, J. Dudley, B. Kibler, D. Richardson, and G. Millot, “Optical parabolic pulse generation and applications,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 45, 1482–1489 (2009).
[Crossref]

V. G. Bucklew, W. H. Renninger, P. S. Edwards, and Z. Liu, “Iteratively seeded mode-locking,” Opt. Express 25, 13481–13493 (2017).

F. Leo, S. Coen, P. Kockaert, S.-P. Gorza, P. Emplit, and M. Haelterman, “Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer,” Nat. Photonics 4, 471–476 (2010).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, R. Hawker, A. F. J. Runge, M. Erkintalo, and N. G. R. Broderick, “120  fs, 4.2  nJ pulses from an all-normal-dispersion, polarization-maintaining, fiber laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 121111 (2013).
[Crossref]

S. Coen and M. Erkintalo, “Universal scaling laws of Kerr frequency combs,” Opt. Lett. 38, 1790–1792 (2013).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, N. G. R. Broderick, M. Erkintalo, J. S. Y. Chen, and V. Kruglov, “Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror,” Opt. Express 20, 10545–10551 (2012).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, T. H. Chiu, and J. F. Ferguson, “Self-starting femtosecond mode-locked Nd:glass laser that uses intracavity saturable absorbers,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1077–1079 (1993).

A. Fernandez, T. Fuji, A. Poppe, A. Fürbach, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, “Chirped-pulse oscillators: a route to highpower femtosecond pulses without external amplification,” Opt. Lett. 29, 1366–1368 (2004).
[Crossref]

C. Finot, J. Dudley, B. Kibler, D. Richardson, and G. Millot, “Optical parabolic pulse generation and applications,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 45, 1482–1489 (2009).
[Crossref]

S. Pitois, C. Finot, L. Provost, and D. J. Richardson, “Generation of localized pulses from incoherent wave in optical fiber lines made of concatenated Mamyshev regenerators,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, 1537–1547 (2008).
[Crossref]

L. Provost, C. Finot, P. Petropoulos, K. Mukasa, and D. J. Richardson, “Design scaling rules for 2R-optical self-phase modulation-based regenerators,” Opt. Express 15, 5100–5113 (2007).
[Crossref]

C. Finot, S. Pitois, and G. Millot, “Regenerative 40 Gbit/s wavelength converter based on similariton generation,” Opt. Lett. 30, 1776–1778 (2005).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

A. Fernandez, T. Fuji, A. Poppe, A. Fürbach, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, “Chirped-pulse oscillators: a route to highpower femtosecond pulses without external amplification,” Opt. Lett. 29, 1366–1368 (2004).
[Crossref]

A. Fernandez, T. Fuji, A. Poppe, A. Fürbach, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, “Chirped-pulse oscillators: a route to highpower femtosecond pulses without external amplification,” Opt. Lett. 29, 1366–1368 (2004).
[Crossref]

I. Samartsev, A. Bordenyuk, and V. Gapontsev, “Environmentally stable seed source for high power ultrafast laser,” Proc. SPIE 10085, 100850S (2017).
[Crossref]

R. R. Gattass and E. Mazur, “Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials,” Nat. Photonics 2, 219–225 (2008).
[Crossref]

T. Herr, V. Brasch, J. D. Jost, C. Y. Wang, N. M. Kondratiev, M. L. Gorodetsky, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Temporal solitons in optical microresonators,” Nat. Photonics 8, 145–152 (2014).
[Crossref]

F. Leo, S. Coen, P. Kockaert, S.-P. Gorza, P. Emplit, and M. Haelterman, “Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer,” Nat. Photonics 4, 471–476 (2010).
[Crossref]

F. Leo, S. Coen, P. Kockaert, S.-P. Gorza, P. Emplit, and M. Haelterman, “Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer,” Nat. Photonics 4, 471–476 (2010).
[Crossref]

K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson, “77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1080–1082 (1993).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, R. Hawker, A. F. J. Runge, M. Erkintalo, and N. G. R. Broderick, “120  fs, 4.2  nJ pulses from an all-normal-dispersion, polarization-maintaining, fiber laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 121111 (2013).
[Crossref]

T. Herr, V. Brasch, J. D. Jost, C. Y. Wang, N. M. Kondratiev, M. L. Gorodetsky, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Temporal solitons in optical microresonators,” Nat. Photonics 8, 145–152 (2014).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

F. O. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, W. G. Clark, and F. W. Wise, “Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902 (2004).
[Crossref]

K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson, “77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1080–1082 (1993).
[Crossref]

T. Herr, V. Brasch, J. D. Jost, C. Y. Wang, N. M. Kondratiev, M. L. Gorodetsky, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Temporal solitons in optical microresonators,” Nat. Photonics 8, 145–152 (2014).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

J. Szczepanek, T. M. Kardaś, M. Michalska, C. Radzewicz, and Y. Stepanenko, “Simple all-PM-fiber laser mode-locked with a nonlinear loop mirror,” Opt. Lett. 40, 3500–3503 (2015).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, T. H. Chiu, and J. F. Ferguson, “Self-starting femtosecond mode-locked Nd:glass laser that uses intracavity saturable absorbers,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1077–1079 (1993).

C. Finot, J. Dudley, B. Kibler, D. Richardson, and G. Millot, “Optical parabolic pulse generation and applications,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 45, 1482–1489 (2009).
[Crossref]

T. Herr, V. Brasch, J. D. Jost, C. Y. Wang, N. M. Kondratiev, M. L. Gorodetsky, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Temporal solitons in optical microresonators,” Nat. Photonics 8, 145–152 (2014).
[Crossref]

F. Leo, S. Coen, P. Kockaert, S.-P. Gorza, P. Emplit, and M. Haelterman, “Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer,” Nat. Photonics 4, 471–476 (2010).
[Crossref]

T. Herr, V. Brasch, J. D. Jost, C. Y. Wang, N. M. Kondratiev, M. L. Gorodetsky, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Temporal solitons in optical microresonators,” Nat. Photonics 8, 145–152 (2014).
[Crossref]

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

A. Fernandez, T. Fuji, A. Poppe, A. Fürbach, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, “Chirped-pulse oscillators: a route to highpower femtosecond pulses without external amplification,” Opt. Lett. 29, 1366–1368 (2004).
[Crossref]

C. Aguergaray, N. G. R. Broderick, M. Erkintalo, J. S. Y. Chen, and V. Kruglov, “Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror,” Opt. Express 20, 10545–10551 (2012).
[Crossref]

F. Leo, S. Coen, P. Kockaert, S.-P. Gorza, P. Emplit, and M. Haelterman, “Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer,” Nat. Photonics 4, 471–476 (2010).
[Crossref]

V. G. Bucklew, W. H. Renninger, P. S. Edwards, and Z. Liu, “Iteratively seeded mode-locking,” Opt. Express 25, 13481–13493 (2017).

P. V. Mamyshev, “All-optical data regeneration based on self-phase modulation effect,” in 24th European Conference on Optical Communication, Madrid, Spain (IEEE, 1998), pp. 475–476.

U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAM’s) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 435–453 (1996).
[Crossref]

R. R. Gattass and E. Mazur, “Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials,” Nat. Photonics 2, 219–225 (2008).
[Crossref]

Y. K. Chembo and C. R. Menyuk, “Spatiotemporal Lugiato-Lefever formalism for Kerr-comb generation in whispering-gallery-mode resonators,” Phys. Rev. A 87, 053852 (2013).
[Crossref]

J. Szczepanek, T. M. Kardaś, M. Michalska, C. Radzewicz, and Y. Stepanenko, “Simple all-PM-fiber laser mode-locked with a nonlinear loop mirror,” Opt. Lett. 40, 3500–3503 (2015).
[Crossref]

C. Finot, J. Dudley, B. Kibler, D. Richardson, and G. Millot, “Optical parabolic pulse generation and applications,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 45, 1482–1489 (2009).
[Crossref]

C. Finot, S. Pitois, and G. Millot, “Regenerative 40 Gbit/s wavelength converter based on similariton generation,” Opt. Lett. 30, 1776–1778 (2005).
[Crossref]

L. F. Mollenauer and R. H. Stolen, “The soliton laser,” Opt. Lett. 9, 13–15 (1984).
[Crossref]

L. Provost, C. Finot, P. Petropoulos, K. Mukasa, and D. J. Richardson, “Design scaling rules for 2R-optical self-phase modulation-based regenerators,” Opt. Express 15, 5100–5113 (2007).
[Crossref]

K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson, “77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1080–1082 (1993).
[Crossref]

B. Nie, D. Pestov, F. W. Wise, and M. Dantus, “Generation of 42-fs and 10-nJ pulses from a fiber laser with self-similar evolution in the gain segment,” Opt. Express 19, 12074–12080 (2011).
[Crossref]

T. North and M. Rochette, “Regenerative self-pulsating sources of large bandwidths,” Opt. Lett. 39, 174–177 (2014).
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