Wavelength-switchable and wavelength-tunable all-normal-dispersion mode-locked yb-doped fiber laser based on single-walled carbon nanotube wall paper absorber

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 234-241

  Li, Xiao Hui ^a,b   Wang, Yong Gang ^c   Wang, Yi Shan ^a   Hu, Xiao Hong ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Liu, Xiang Lian ^a,b   Yu, Jia ^a   Gao, Cun Xiao ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Yang, Zhi ^a   Li, Cheng ^a   Shen, De Yuan ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes and confined systems; Fiber lasers; mode locked lasers; tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

CONFINED SYSTEMS; FIBER CAVITY; INTENSITY-DEPENDENT; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; PICOSECONDS; PULSE DURATIONS; PUMP POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SWITCHABLE; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH; TWO WAVELENGTH; WAVELENGTH SPACING; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER LASERS; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL PUMPING; YTTERBIUM;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84863047818     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2183862     Document Type: Article

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