Microfiber-based few-layer MoS2saturable absorber for 2.5 GHz passively harmonic mode-locked fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 22841-22846

  Liu, Meng ^a   Zheng, Xu Wu ^a   Qi, You Li ^a   Liu, Hao ^a   Luo, Ai Ping ^a   Luo, Zhi Chao ^a   Xu, Wen Cheng ^a   Zhao, Chu Jun ^b   Zhang, Han ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MICROFIBERS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION EFFECTS; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

DISULFIDE; GLASS FIBER; GRAPHITE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; LIGHT;

DISULFIDES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GRAPHITE; LASERS; LIGHT; MOLYBDENUM; OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 84907504451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.022841     Document Type: Article

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