Low-loss flake-graphene saturable absorber mirror for laser mode-locking at sub-200-fs pulse duration

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  Cunning, B V ^a   Brown, C L ^a   Kielpinski, D ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MODULATION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; KEY COMPONENT; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; LOW LOSS; LOW POWER; MODE LOCK; MODELOCKING; NON-SATURABLE LOSS; PULSE DURATIONS; SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; MIRRORS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84855703827     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3672418     Document Type: Article

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