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We exploit the large anomalous dispersion in the waist of a fiber taper to offset the normal chromatic dispersion of an Yb-doped mode-locked fiber laser. The taper provides sufficient anomalous dispersion to ensure soliton operation.
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Herda, R., Rusu, M., Kivistö, S., Okhotnikov, O.G. (2007). Mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser with dispersion compensation by a fiber taper. In: Corkum, P., Jonas, D.M., Miller, R.J.D., Weiner, A.M. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XV. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68781-8_27
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