Nanocomposites with gold nanorod/silica coreshell structure as saturable absorber for femtosecond pulse generation in a fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 22602-22610

  Wang, Xu De ^a,b   Luo, Ai Ping ^a,c   Liu, Hao ^a   Zhao, Nian ^a   Liu, Meng ^a   Zhu, Yan Fang ^b   Xue, Jian Ping ^b   Luo, Zhi Chao ^a   Xu, Wen Cheng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAIBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GOLD; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORIBBONS; NANORODS; PLASMONS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; GOLD NANORODS (GNRS); OPTICAL DAMAGE THRESHOLD; SATURABLE ABSORPTION EFFECTS; ULTRA-FAST PHOTONICS; ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 84957590208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.022602     Document Type: Article

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