WS2 as a saturable absorber for ultrafast photonic applications of mode-locked and Q-switched lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 11453-11461

  Wu, Kan ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^b   Wang, Jun ^b   Li, Xing ^a   Chen, Jianping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NANOSHEETS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THIN FILMS; TRANSITION METALS;

HIGH SPECTRAL PURITY; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL MATERIAL; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) (PVA); RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; TRANSITION METAL SULFIDES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84943421099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.011453     Document Type: Article

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