http://news.discovery.com/tech/night-lasers-dark-pulses.html New Laser Shoots Beams of Night Not all lasers produce light. This new technology is actually designed to reduce it THE GIST A new laser shoots dark pulses instead of light beams. ...
graphene_nature_photonics GRAPHENE Under high energy Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 051122 (2010) Despite intense research into the preparation and characterization of graphene, there have been few studies into its suitability for applications in photonics. Graphene may have significant advant ...
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 96, 111112 (2010) Atomic layer graphene possesses wavelength-insensitive ultrafast saturable absorption, which can be exploited as a full-band mode locker. With an erbium-doped dissipative soliton fiber laser mode locked with few layer gra ...
NPG Asia Materials research highlight | doi : Published online 21 December 2009 Graphene: Mode-locked lasers Fig. 1: A graphenepolymer composite film (white) can be used as a laser mode locker. The laser schematic is shown in the backg ...