Passively mode-locked fiber lasers at 1039 and 1560 nm based on a common gold nanorod saturable absorber

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 794-801

  Kang, Zhe ^a   Gao, Xuejian ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Feng, Yan ^b   Qin, Guanshi ^a   Qin, Weiping ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GOLD; LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NANORIBBONS; NANORODS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PLASMONS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; YTTERBIUM;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; GOLD NANORODS (GNRS); MODE-LOCKED LASER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; SPR (SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE); THRESHOLD PUMP POWER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84929119323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.5.000794     Document Type: Article

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