Ultrafast erbium-doped fiber laser mode-locked by a CVD-grown molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 17341-17348

  Xia, Handing ^a   Li, Heping ^a   Lan, Changyong ^a   Li, Chun ^a   Zhang, Xiaoxia ^a   Zhang, Shangjian ^a   Liu, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MULTILAYERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; STABLE MODE LOCKING; ULTRAFAST LASER SYSTEMS;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

EID: 84904346923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.017341     Document Type: Article

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