Ytterbium-doped fiber laser passively mode locked by few-layer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS 2) saturable absorber functioned with evanescent field interaction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Du, Juan ^a   Wang, Qingkai ^a   Jiang, Guobao ^a   Xu, Changwen ^b   Zhao, Chujun ^b   Xiang, Yuanjiang ^b   Chen, Yu ^b   Wen, Shuangchun ^a   Zhang, Han ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84908207700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06346     Document Type: Article

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