Nonlinear absorption of SWNT film and its effects to the operation state of pulsed fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 17227-17235

  Li, Xiaohui ^a   Wang, Yonggang ^b   Wang, Yishan ^b   Zhao, Wei ^b   Yu, Xuechao ^a   Sun, Zhipei ^c   Cheng, Xueping ^d   Yu, Xia ^e   Zhang, Ying ^e   Wang, Qi Jie ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d TECHPlace II   (Singapore)

^e SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PULSE GENERATORS; PUMPS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLITONS;

DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; MATERIAL PROCESSING; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; OPTICAL LIMITING; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) (PVA); PULSED FIBER LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84904313786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.017227     Document Type: Article

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