Tunable graphene Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser with suppressed self-mode locking effect

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2554-2558

  Zhou, Da Peng ^a   Wei, Li ^a,b   Liu, Wing Ki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; LASER MODE LOCKING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

3 DB COUPLERS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; NARROW BANDWIDTH; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; RING CAVITIES; SELF MODE LOCKING; TUNABLE BAND-PASS FILTERS; WIDEBAND TUNABILITY;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84861358991     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.002554     Document Type: Article

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