Gold nanorods as saturable absorbers for allfiber passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1986-1991

  Kang, Zhe ^a   Guo, Xingyuan ^a   Jia, Zhixu ^a   Xu, Yang ^a   Liu, Lai ^a   Zhao, Dan ^a   Qin, Guanshi ^a   Qin, Weiping ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

980 NM LASERS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; GOLD NANORODS (GNRS); LONGITUDINAL SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCES; PASSIVE Q-SWITCHING; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; REPETITION RATE; THRESHOLD PUMP POWER;

FIBER LASERS; GOLD; NANORODS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PLASMONS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 84888056074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001986     Document Type: Article

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