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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 549(2018)

Passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber laser using a gold nanostars based saturable absorber

Zhe Kang1...2, Mingyi Liu2, Zhenwei Li1, Siqing Li2, Zhixu Jia2, Chengzhi Liu1, Weiping Qin2 and Guanshi Qin2,* |Show fewer author(s)

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¹Changchun Observatory, NAO, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130012, China

²State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science & Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Dec. 19, 2017

Accepted: Mar. 25, 2018

Published Online: Jul. 2, 2018

The Author Email: Guanshi Qin (qings@jlu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000549

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