Soliton thulium-doped fiber laser with carbon nanotube saturable absorber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 128-130

  Kieu, K ^a   Wise, F W ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Midinfrared; Mode locking; Saturable absorber (SA); Soliton pulse

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPED; DOPED FIBER; FS PULSE; MIDINFRARED; MODELOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBER (SA); SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITON LASER;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; HOLMIUM; SOLITONS; THULIUM; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 67649291336     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2008727     Document Type: Article

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