A 2.95 GHz, femtosecond passive harmonic mode-locked fiber laser based on evanescent field interaction with topological insulator film

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 154-164

  Yan, Peiguang ^a   Lin, Rongyong ^a   Ruan, Shuangchen ^a   Liu, Aijiang ^a   Chen, Hao ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PULSED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; FIELD INTERACTIONS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; INTRACAVITY POLARIZATION; MAXIMUM PUMP POWER; NONLINEAR EFFECT; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84923648362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.000154     Document Type: Article

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