Harmonic mode locking of bound-state solitons fiber laser based on MoS2 saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 205-210

  Wang, Yadong ^a   Mao, Dong ^a   Gan, Xuetao ^a   Han, Lei ^a   Ma, Chaojie ^a   Xi, Teli ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Shang, Wuyun ^a   Hua, Shijia ^a   Zhao, Jianlin ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BOUND STATE; D-SHAPED FIBER; HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; MULTIPLE PULSE; OPERATION REGIME; REPETITION RATE; TEMPORAL SEPARATION;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84926657859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.000205     Document Type: Article

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