All-polarization-maintaining Er-doped ultrashort-pulse fiber laser using carbon nanotube saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9429-9435

  Nishizawa, N ^a   Seno, Y ^a   Sumimura, K ^a   Sakakibara, Y ^b   Itoga, E ^b   Kataura, H ^b   Itoh, K ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NANOTUBES; NOISE FIGURE; POLARIZATION; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YARN;

COMPRESSED PULSE; DISPERSIVE FIBER; HIGHER-ORDER SOLITONS; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; REPETITION FREQUENCY; RF AMPLITUDES; STABLE MODE LOCKING; ULTRASHORT PULSE FIBER LASERS;

POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OSCILLOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 46149127579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009429     Document Type: Article

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