Multiple-soliton dynamic patterns in a graphene mode-locked fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6685-6692

  Meng, Yichang ^a   Zhang, Shumin ^a   Li, Xingliang ^a   Li, Hongfei ^a   Du, Juan ^a   Hao, Yanping ^a  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

DYNAMIC PATTERNS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER RING LASERS; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; PUMPING POWER;

SOLITONS;

GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GRAPHITE; LASERS; LIGHT; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84858991129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006685     Document Type: Article

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