Thulium-doped all-fiber laser mode-locked by CVD-graphene/PMMA saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 12797-12802

  Sobon, Grzegorz ^a   Sotor, Jaroslaw ^a   Pasternak, Iwona ^b   Krajewska, Aleksandra ^b,c   Strupinski, Wlodek ^b   Abramski, Krzysztof M ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^c MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER MODES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

ALL-FIBER LASERS; CENTER WAVELENGTH; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); FIBER CONNECTOR; GRAPHENE SATURABLE ABSORBERS; MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PULSE DURATIONS; TM-DOPED FIBER LASER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

COPPER; GRAPHITE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); THULIUM; GAS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; GAS; LASER; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

ABSORPTION; COPPER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GASES; GRAPHITE; LASERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; THULIUM;

EID: 84878532346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.012797     Document Type: Article

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