High contrast grating based saturable absorber for mode-locked lasers

Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO/QELS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yang, Weijian ^a   Sedgwick, Forrest ^a   Zhang, Zhigang ^b   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

HIGH-CONTRAST GRATINGS; LARGE DESIGNS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; REFLECTION BANDS; SATURATION FLUENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77957555869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/cleo.2010.cthi5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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