Microfiber-based, highly nonlinear graphene saturable absorber for formation of versatile structural soliton molecules in a fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 27019-27025

  Luo, Ai Ping ^a   Zhu, Peng Fei ^a   Liu, Hao ^a   Zheng, Xu Wu ^a   Zhao, Nian ^a   Liu, Meng ^a   Cui, Hu ^a   Luo, Zhi Chao ^a   Xu, Wen Cheng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; MOLECULES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS;

DYNAMICS OF SOLITONS; GRAPHENE SATURABLE ABSORBERS; MICRO-FIBER; NARROW PULSE; NONLINEAR EFFECT; PULSE PROFILE; SOLITON MOLECULES;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84920054262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.027019     Document Type: Article

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