Wavelength-tunable picosecond soliton fiber laser with Topological Insulator: Bi2Se3 as a mode locker

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27888-27895

  Zhao, Chujun ^a   Zou, Yanhong ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Wang, Zhiteng ^a   Lu, Shunbin ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Wen, Shuangchun ^a   Tang, Dingyuan ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; MODULATION DEPTH; PICOSECONDS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURATION INTENSITY; TELECOMMUNICATION BANDS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; Z-SCAN MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SOLITONS;

BISMUTH; ERBIUM; GRAPHITE; SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DYE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BISMUTH; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERBIUM; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GRAPHITE; LASERS, DYE; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SELENIUM; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84870614466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027888     Document Type: Article

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