Sub-100 fs two-color pump-probe spectroscopy of single wall carbon nanotubes with a 100 MHz Er-fiber laser system

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11727-11734

  Gambetta, A ^a   Galzerano, G ^a   Rozhin, A G ^b   Ferrari, A C ^b   Ramponi, R ^a   Laporta, P ^a   Marangoni, M ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOTUBES; PROBES; PUMPING (LASER); YARN;

FEMTOSECOND PUMP PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER SYSTEMS; NEAR INFRARED; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; RELAXATION DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL REGION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 49149120541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011727     Document Type: Article

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