Optical deposition of graphene and carbon nanotubes in a fiber ferrule for passive mode-locked lasing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 23054-23061

  Martinez, Amos ^a   Fuse, Kazuyuki ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Yamashita, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GRAPHENE; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SOLITONS;

ALL FIBER; CARBON ATOMS; DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE; ERBIUM-DOPED OPTICAL FIBER; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKED; PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS; PLANAR SHEETS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITON-LIKE; TAPERED FIBER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 78149388437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023054     Document Type: Article

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