All-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber ring laser using optically deposited graphene saturable absorbers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Qingqing ^a   Chen, Tong ^a   Zhang, Botao ^a   Li, Mingshan ^a   Lu, Yongfeng ^b   Chen, Kevin P ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE SATURABLE ABSORBERS; LASER OPERATIONS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE ENERGIES; SOLITON PULSE; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS;

BANDWIDTH; DEPOSITS; GRAPHENE; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLITONS; THULIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 84876146512     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4800036     Document Type: Article

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