168 fs pulse generation from graphene-chitosan mode-locked fiber laser

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1981-1986

  Tarka, Jan ^a   Sobon, Grzegorz ^a   Boguslawski, Jakub ^a   Sotor, Jaroslaw ^a   Jagiello, Joanna ^b   Aksienionek, Magdalena ^b   Lipinska, Ludwika ^b   Zdrojek, Mariusz ^c   Judek, Jaroslaw ^c   Abramski, Krzysztof M ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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FS PULSE;

EID: 84907476394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.4.001981     Document Type: Article

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