High-energy passively Q-switched 2 ?m Tm3+- doped double-clad fiber laser using grapheneoxide- deposited fiber taper

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 204-209

  Liu, Chun ^a   Ye, Chenchun ^a   Luo, Zhengqian ^a   Cheng, Huihui ^a   Wu, Duanduan ^a   Zheng, Yonglong ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a   Qu, Biao ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; OPTICAL PUMPING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; THULIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; DOUBLE CLAD FIBER LASER; DOUBLE-CLAD; EVANESCENT FIELDS; FIBER TAPER; HIGH ENERGY; LASER DAMAGE THRESHOLD; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP SOURCES; Q-SWITCHED; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; Q-SWITCHES; RARE-EARTH-DOPED FIBER LASERS; SINGLE PULSE ENERGY; STABLE SINGLE-TRANSVERSE-MODE; TAPERED FIBER;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 84872732207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000204     Document Type: Article

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