Passive synchronization of erbium and thulium doped fiber mode-locked lasers enhanced by common graphene saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 5536-5543

  Sotor, Jaroslaw ^a   Sobon, Grzegorz ^a   Tarka, Jan ^a   Pasternak, Iwona ^b   Krajewska, Aleksandra ^b,c   Strupinski, Wlodek ^b   Abramski, Krzysztof M ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^c MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; INSTRUMENT SCALES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PHASE MODULATION; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS; THULIUM; TIMING JITTER;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; GRAPHENE SATURABLE ABSORBERS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISMS; SYNCHRONIZED PULSE; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84896326272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.005536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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