Kelly sideband variation and self four-wave-mixing in femtosecond fiber soliton laser mode-locked by multiple exfoliated graphite nano-particles

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Yung Hsiang ^a   Lin, Gong Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84878702595     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: 1612202X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1612-2011/10/4/045109     Document Type: Article

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