Suppression of continuous lasing in a carbon nanotube polyimide film mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-115

  Gui, Lili ^a   Yang, Xin ^b   Zhao, Guangzhen ^a   Yang, Xu ^a   Xiao, Xiaosheng ^a   Zhu, Jinsong ^b   Yang, Changxi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERIC FILMS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; DIFFERENT MODES; ERBIUM DOPED; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; LASER CAVITY; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; MODULATION DEPTH; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; OUTPUT COUPLING; OUTPUT POWER; PI FILM; POLYIMIDE FILM; PULSE TRAIN; PULSE WIDTH; PUMP POWER; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE-PULSE MODE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; ERBIUM; POLYIMIDE RESIN; RESIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERBIUM; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; NANOTUBES, CARBON; RESINS, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 78650961321     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000110     Document Type: Article

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