Sub-200-fs pulsed erbium-doped fiber laser using a carbon nanotube-polyvinylalcohol mode locker

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1-3

  Rozhin, Aleksey G ^a   Sakakibara, Youichi ^a   Namiki, Shu ^a   Tokumoto, Madoka ^a   Kataura, Hiromichi ^a   Achiba, Yohji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; THIN FILMS;

ABSORBER FILMS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; NANOCOMPOSITES; RING CAVITY CONFIGURATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 31944436046     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2172398     Document Type: Article

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