Wavelength-versatile graphene-gold film saturable absorber mirror for ultra-broadband mode-locking of bulk lasers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ma, Jie ^a   Xie, Guoqiang ^a   Lv, Peng ^b   Gao, Wenlan ^a   Yuan, Peng ^a   Qian, Liejia ^a   Griebner, Uwe ^c   Petrov, Valentin ^c   Yu, Haohai ^d   Zhang, Huaijin ^d   Wang, Jiyang ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84901460890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05016     Document Type: Article

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