Passively mode-locked and Q-switched Yb-doped fiber lasers with graphene-based saturable absorber

Zhongguo Jiguang/Chinese Journal of Lasers

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Jiang ^a   Wu, Sida ^b   Wang, Ke ^a   Cao, Yi ^a   Yang, Quanhong ^b   Wang, Pu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Graphene; High pulse energy; Lasers; Mode locked; Passively Q switched

Indexed keywords

HIGH PULSE ENERGY; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; LINEAR CAVITY; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED PULSE TRAINS; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE WIDTH; PUMP POWER; Q-SWITCHED; REPETITION RATE; RING CAVITY CONFIGURATION; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE PULSE ENERGY; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; YTTERBIUM;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 80052650013     PISSN: 02587025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3788/CJL201138.0802001     Document Type: Article

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