Q-switched fiber lasers with carbon nanotubes hosted in ceramics

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 290-294

  Song, Yong Won ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CERAMIC MATERIALS; FIBER LASERS; NANOTUBES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; RING LASERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); YARN;

AEROSOL DEPOSITION PROCESS; FIBER-RING LASERS; PULSE DURATIONS; Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); STABLE OPERATION; SWITCHING OPERATIONS;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 84863061641     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.000290     Document Type: Article

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