Tunable Q-switched fiber laser based on saturable edge-state absorption in few-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 31113-31122

  Woodward, R I ^a   Kelleher, E J R ^a   Howe, R C T ^b   Hu, G ^b   Torrisi, F ^b   Hasan, T ^b   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FIBER LASERS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCH; POLYMER COMPOSITE; PULSE ENERGIES; Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS; REPETITION RATE; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84919653495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.031113     Document Type: Article

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