1-, 1.5-, and 2-μm fiber lasers Q-switched by a broadband few-layer MoS2 saturable absorber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 4679-4686

  Luo, Zhengqian ^a   Huang, Yizhong ^a   Zhong, Min ^a   Li, Yingyue ^a   Wu, Jianyu ^a   Xu, Bin ^a   Xu, Huiying ^a   Cai, Zhiping ^a   Peng, Jian ^a   Weng, Jian ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Er doped fiber; MoS2 saturable absorber; Q switched fiber lasers; Tm doped fiber; Yb doped fiber

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; INFRARED DEVICES; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THULIUM COMPOUNDS;

ER-DOPED FIBERS; MID-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) (PVA); Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS; TM-DOPED; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84910642027     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2362147     Document Type: Article

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