Broadband saturable absorption of graphene oxide thin film and its application in pulsed fiber lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Li, Xiaohui ^a   Tang, Yulong ^a   Yan, Zhiyu ^a   Wang, Yue ^b   Meng, Bo ^a   Liang, Guozhen ^a   Sun, Handong ^b   Yu, Xia ^c   Zhang, Ying ^c   Cheng, Xueping ^d   Wang, Qi Jie ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d TECHPlace II   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Graphene oxide; Mode locking; Modulation depth; Q switching

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); Q SWITCHING; RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

FIBER-RING LASERS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; MODELOCKING; MODULATION DEPTH; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; PULSED FIBER LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84902987035     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2312952     Document Type: Article

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