Mode-locking of Er-doped fiber laser using a multilayer MoS2thin film as a saturable absorber in both anomalous and normal dispersion regimes

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 23732-23742

  Khazaeizhad, Reza ^a   Kassani, Sahar Hosseinzadeh ^a   Jeong, Hwanseong ^b   Yeom, Dong Il ^b   Oh, Kyunghwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DISPERSION (WAVES); EVANESCENT FIELDS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; FILM PREPARATION; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MULTILAYERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLITONS;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

DISULFIDE; GAS; GRAPHITE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE;

DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; GAS; LIGHT; SOLID STATE LASER;

DISULFIDES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GASES; GRAPHITE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MOLYBDENUM;

EID: 84907562845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.023732     Document Type: Article

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