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ULTRA-SHORT OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION WITH SINGLE-LAYER GRAPHENE

C.-C. LEE

Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

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T. R. SCHIBLI

Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

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G. ACOSTA

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309, USA

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J. S. BUNCH

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S021886351000573XCited by:20 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Pulses as short as 260 fs have been generated in a diode-pumped low-gain Er:Yb:glass laser by exploiting the nonlinear optical response of single-layer graphene. The application of this novel material to solid-state bulk lasers opens up a way to compact and robust lasers with ultrahigh repetition rates.

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