Few-cycle pulses from a graphene mode-locked all-fiber laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 25, 2015, Pages

  Purdie, D G ^a   Popa, D ^a   Wittwer, V J ^a   Jiang, Z ^a   Bonacchini, G ^a   Torrisi, F ^a   Milana, S ^a   Lidorikis, E ^b   Ferrari, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; LOCKS (FASTENERS);

ALL-FIBER LASERS; AVERAGE POWER; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FREE SPACE OPTICS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LOW COSTS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED OSCILLATORS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84934898078     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4922397     Document Type: Article

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