Fabricating graphite nano-sheet powder by slow electrochemical exfoliation of large-scale graphite foil as a mode-locker for fiber lasers

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1893-1905

  Yang, Chun Yu ^a   Wu, Chung Lun ^a   Lin, Yung Hsiang ^a   Tsai, Ling Hsuan ^a   Chi, Yu Chieh ^a   Chang, Jung Hung ^a   Wu, Chih I ^a   Tsai, Hung Kuei ^a   Tsai, Din Ping ^a   Lin, Gong Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE SOLUTION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; EXFOLIATED GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE NANO-SHEETS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTRA; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SOLITON COMPRESSION;

ACETONE; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NANOSHEETS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PHOTOELECTRONS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLITONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 84888040869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001893     Document Type: Article

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