Cladding-filled graphene in a photonic crystal fiber as a saturable absorber and its first application for ultrafast all-fiber laser

Optical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Junqing ^a   Ruan, Shuangchen ^a   Yan, Peiguang ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Yu, Yongqin ^a   Wei, Huifeng ^b   Luo, Jie ^b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Company Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

fiber; lasers; nanomaterials; photonic crystals; ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

ALL-FIBER LASERS; EASY FABRICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ROBUSTNESS; EVANESCENT COUPLING; MUTUAL INTERACTION; NON-LINEARITY ENHANCEMENT; SATURATION ABSORPTION; SINGLE MODE OPERATION;

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GRAPHENE; LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 84886800223     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.52.10.106105     Document Type: Article

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