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"This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest research related to the science, technology and applications of mode-locked fiber lasers. It provides readers with a timely source of information on the recent novel scientific concepts, cost-effective schematics, in addition to an overview of the feasible applications such as in LIDAR in autonomous cars and plant vegetation and environment monitoring. It also contains a review of recent scientific findings in the field of VOFCs, which demonstrate for the nonlinear science community a newly emerging field of nonlinear science, and so stimulates the development of new theoretical approaches and opens new horizons for the photonics community by pushing boundaries of the existing laser systems in terms of optical bandwidth and acquisition speed and resulting new applications. This book is a valuable guide for researchers in photonics and fundamental and nonlinear science, in addition to the fields of sensing and chemical monitoring. The new classes of optical sources and photonic devices explored in this book will be of relevance with applications to other fields including medicine, bio-photonics, metrology, and environmental safety"--