Graphene and nanotube mode-locked fiber laser emitting dissipative and conventional solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 18969-18974

  Cui, Yudong ^a   Liu, Xueming ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; COUNTER-CLOCKWISE; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE SOURCES; REPETITION RATE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84881498027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.018969     Document Type: Article

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