Towards low timing phase noise operation in fiber lasers mode locked by graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes at 1.5 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 501-511

  Wu, Kan ^a   Li, Xiaohui ^b   Wang, Yonggang ^c   Wang, Qi Jie ^b   Shum, Perry Ping ^b   Chen, Jianping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; GRAPHENE; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; LASER MIRRORS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NOISE ABATEMENT; PHASE NOISE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; TIMING JITTER; YARN;

CLOCK DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY METROLOGY; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HIGH-PRECISION; LASER INTENSITY NOISE; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPTICAL SAMPLING; OPTICAL SENSING;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84937205030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.000501     Document Type: Article

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