Dissipative soliton generation from a graphene oxide mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23653-23658

  Xu, Jia ^a   Wu, Sida ^b   Li, Huihui ^a   Liu, Jiang ^a   Sun, Ruoyu ^a   Tan, Fangzhou ^a   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

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLITONS;

DISPERSION-COMPENSATION FIBERS; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HIGHLY CHIRPED PULSE; MODE-LOCKED; NORMAL DISPERSION; REPETITION RATE;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

GRAPHITE; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASER;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GRAPHITE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; OXIDES;

EID: 84867312402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023653     Document Type: Article

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