Fabrication and characterization of single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers for solid-state laser mode-locking near 1 μm

Authors :: Uwe Griebner
Jong Hyuk Yim
Soonil Lee
Kihong Kim
Won Bae Cho
Yeong Hwan Ahn
G. Steinmeyer
Valentin Petrov
Fabian Rotermund
Source :: 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.
Publication Year :: 2008
Publisher :: IEEE, 2008.
Abstract: Ultrafast single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers were fabricated and optimized for mode-locking solid-state lasers near 1 mum. Their typical modulation depth and recovery time were measured to be Gt 0.3% and ~ 750 fs, respectively.

Subjects :: Materials science
Fabrication
business.industry
Physics::Optics
Nonlinear optics
Carbon nanotube
Laser
law.invention
Optics
Mode-locking
Solid-state laser
law
Fiber laser
business
Ultrashort pulse

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