Graphene-filled hollow optical fiber saturable absorber for efficient soliton fiber laser modelocking

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5652-5657

  Choi, Sun Young ^a   Cho, Dae Kun ^a   Song, Yong Won ^b   Oh, Kyunghwan ^c   Kim, Kihong ^a   Rotermund, Fabian ^a   Yeom, Dong Il ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; GRAPHENE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS;

EVANESCENT FIELDS; GUIDED MODES; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; HOLLOW OPTICAL FIBERS; IN-LINE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; PASSIVE HARMONIC MODE-LOCKING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; REPETITION RATE; SOLITON LASER; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

GLASS FIBER; GRAPHITE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 84857510233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005652     Document Type: Article

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