Passively mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2SiO5 laser with reflection-type single-walled carbon nanotube absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1283-1286

  Su, Liming ^a   Wang, Yonggang ^b   Liu, Jie ^a   Feng, Chao ^a   Fan, Xiuwei ^a   Zheng, Lihe ^c   Su, Liangbi ^c   Xu, Jun ^c  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YARN; YTTERBIUM;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; EVAPORATION METHOD; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE ENERGIES; REFLECTION TYPE; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SHORT PULSE DURATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84863367870     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001283     Document Type: Article

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