Ultrafast Yb:Y2SiO5 laser investigation based on a carbon nanotube absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3229-3232

  Liu, Chengcheng ^a   Wang, Yonggang ^b   Liu, Jie ^a   Zheng, Lihe ^c   Su, Liangbi ^c   Xu, Jun ^c  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YARN; YTTERBIUM;

A-CENTER; AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PEAK POWER; SINGLE PULSE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE SATURABLE ABSORBERS; ULTRA-FAST;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79960023990     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.003229     Document Type: Article

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