Ultrafast and widely tuneable vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser, mode-locked by a graphene-integrated distributed Bragg reflector

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 31548-31559

  Zaugg, C A ^a   Sun, Z ^b   Wittwer, V J ^b   Popa, D ^b   Milana, S ^b   Kulmala, T S ^b   Sundaram, R S ^b   Mangold, M ^a   Sieber, O D ^a   Golling, M ^a   Lee, Y ^c,d   Ahn, J H ^c,d   Ferrari, A C ^b   Keller, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC COATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; HIGH REFLECTION MIRRORS; MODULATION DEPTH; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTOELECTRONICS DEVICES; SATURATION FLUENCE; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MIRRORS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; LASERS; LENSES; REFRACTOMETRY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84890526199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.031548     Document Type: Article

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