Passively mode-locked short-cavity 10GHz Er:Yb-codoped phosphate-fiber laser using carbon nanotubes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yamashita, Shinji ^a   Yoshida, Takeshi ^a   Set, Sze Y ^b   Polynkin, Pavel ^c   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YK Building 2F   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Passive mode locking; Phosphate fiber; Saturable absorption

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CAVITY RESONATORS; ERBIUM; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; PHOSPHATES; YTTERBIUM;

CAVITY LENGTH; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING; PHOSPHATE FIBER; SATURABLE ABSORPTION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34248357871     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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