All-fiber Er-doped Q-switched laser based on tungsten disulfide saturable absorber

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 373-379

  Kassani, Sahar Hosseinzadeh ^a   Khazaeizhad, Reza ^a   Jeong, Hwanseong ^b   Nazari, Tavakol ^a   Yeom, Dong Il ^b   Oh, Kyunghwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; NANOSHEETS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SPINNING (FIBERS); SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

980 NM LASERS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; PULSED OPERATION; Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS; REPETITION RATE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC; SIDE-POLISHED FIBER; TUNGSTEN DISULFIDE;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 84921813064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.5.000373     Document Type: Article

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