Microfiber-based WS2-film saturable absorber for ultra-fast photonics

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 479-489

  Yan, Peiguang ^a   Liu, Aijiang ^a   Chen, Yushan ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   Ruan, Shuangchen ^a   Guo, Chunyu ^a   Chen, Sifan ^a   Li, Irene Ling ^a   Yang, Haipeng ^a   Hu, Juguang ^a   Cao, Guangzhong ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PULSED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS; THERMAL PLUMES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; LOW INSERTION LOSS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; TUNGSTEN DISULFIDE; ULTRA-FAST PHOTONICS; ULTRAFAST LASER SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84924981213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.5.000479     Document Type: Article

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