Passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser based on few-layer MoS2 saturable absorber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 69-72

  Li, Heping ^a   Xia, Handing ^a   Lan, Changyong ^a   Li, Chun ^a   Zhang, Xiaoxia ^a   Li, Jianfeng ^a   Liu, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Molybdenum sulfide; Nanomaterials; Q switching

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; LASER OPERATIONS; MODULATION DEPTH; MOLYBDENUM SULFIDE; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION; SATURATION INTENSITY;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 84919485047     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2361899     Document Type: Article

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