Enhanced thermal stability of oleic-acid-capped PbS quantum dot optical fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 519-524

  Sun, Xiaolan ^a   Dai, Rong ^a   Chen, Juanjuan ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Wang, Tingyun ^a   Kost, Alan R ^b   Tsung, Chia Kuang ^c   An, Zesheng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; GAIN MEDIUM; OLEYLAMINE-CAPPED;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84892639998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000519     Document Type: Article

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