An All-fiber 2-μm wavelength-tunable mode-locked laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 1656-1658

  Fang, Qiang ^a   Kieu, Khanh ^a   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Midinfrared; mode locking; saturable absorber (SA); tunable

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; FIBER TAPER; LARGE TUNING RANGE; MIDINFRARED; MODELOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SELF-STARTING; SPECTRAL TUNING; TUNABLE; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBERS; LASERS; THULIUM; TUNING;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77958580841     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2077736     Document Type: Article

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