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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 11, 996 (2018)

Facile active control of a pulsed erbium-doped fiber laser using modulation depth tunable carbon nanotubes

Xintong Xu^1、2, Shuangchen Ruan^1、*, Jianpang Zhai¹, Ling Li¹, Jihong Pei², and Zikang Tang³

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¹Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Laser Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Optomechatronics Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

²College of Information Engineering, ATR National Defence S&T Key Laboratory, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

³Institute of Applied Physics & Materials Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China

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Xintong Xu, Shuangchen Ruan, Jianpang Zhai, Ling Li, Jihong Pei, Zikang Tang. Facile active control of a pulsed erbium-doped fiber laser using modulation depth tunable carbon nanotubes[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 996 Copy Citation Text

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Xintong Xu, Shuangchen Ruan, Jianpang Zhai, Ling Li, Jihong Pei, Zikang Tang. Facile active control of a pulsed erbium-doped fiber laser using modulation depth tunable carbon nanotubes[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 996

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