Triturating versatile carbon materials as saturable absorptive nano powders for ultrafast pulsating of erbium-doped fiber lasers

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 236-253

  Lin, Yung Hsiang ^a   Yang, Chun Yu ^a   Lin, Sheng Fong ^a   Lin, Gong Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; CHARCOAL; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; MODULATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; POWDERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; NONLINEAR TRANSMITTANCE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE COMPRESSORS; PULSE SHORTENING; RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTRA; SATURATION INTENSITY;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

EID: 84921784198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.5.000236     Document Type: Article

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