Er-Doped Fiber Laser Mode-Locked by CVD-Graphene Saturable Absorber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2770-2775

  Sobon, Grzegorz ^a   Sotor, Jaroslaw ^a   Abramski, Krzysztof M ^a   Pasternak, Iwona ^b   Strupinski, Wlodzimierz ^b   Jankiewicz, Zdzislaw ^b   Grodecki, Kacper ^c   Paletko, Piotr ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b lnstitute of Electronic Materials Technology   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; laser mode locking; ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008539297     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2207092     Document Type: Article

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