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We present an all-fiber passively mode-locked (ML) laser with a nonlinear multimode interference (NLMI)-based saturable absorber (SA) capable of generating five pulse modes. The SA consists of two centrally aligned graded index multimode fiber (GIMF) with different diameters (105-50 µm) and features a widely adjustable transmission with saturable/reverse-saturable absorption. Based on this, dissipative soliton (DS), Q-switched rectangular pulse (QRP), dissipative soliton resonance (DSR), noise-like pulse (NLP) and bright-dark pulse pairs (BDP) are observed at three dispersions without additional filter. The DS has a pulse energy, bandwidth and duration of up to 1.15 nJ, 17.98 nm and ∼2.78 ps. The achievable pulse duration and energy of DSR and NLP are 5.21, 48.06 ns and 4.53, 5.12 nJ, respectively. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the BDP is superimposed by a chair-case pulse (CP) and a rectangular pulse (RP) belonging to orthogonal polarization states. The versatility, flexibility, simplicity and energy scalability of the large-core hybrid GIMF-SA, make it interesting and highly attractive in ultrafast photonics.
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