Graphene oxide mode-locked femtosecond erbium-doped fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15474-15480

  Xu, Jia ^a   Liu, Jiang ^a   Wu, Sida ^b   Yang, Quan Hong ^b   Wang, Pu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

ALL FIBER; ALL-FIBER LASERS; DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; EASY FABRICATION; ERBIUM DOPED; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; FEMTOSECONDS; FS PULSE; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HYDROPHILIC PROPERTIES; MODE-LOCKED; NATURAL GRAPHITE; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT PULSE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PULSEWIDTHS; REPETITION RATE; RING CAVITIES; ULTRA-FAST PHOTONICS; ULTRA-SONICATION;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84863750523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015474     Document Type: Article

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