Graphene Oxide vs. Reduced Graphene Oxide as saturable absorbers for Er-doped passively mode-locked fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 19463-19473

  Sobon, Grzegorz ^a   Sotor, Jaroslaw ^a   Jagiello, Joanna ^b   Kozinski, Rafal ^b   Zdrojek, Mariusz ^c   Holdynski, Marcin ^d   Paletko, Piotr ^a   Boguslawski, Jakub ^a   Lipinska, Ludwika ^b   Abramski, Krzysztof M ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SOLITONS;

CENTER WAVELENGTH; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; ER-DOPED; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; FABRICATION PROCESS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; LASER PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

GRAPHITE; OXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOLID STATE LASER;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GRAPHITE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDES;

EID: 84865599826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019463     Document Type: Article

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