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

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Yim, Jong Hyuk ^a   Cho, Won Bae ^a   Lee, Soonil ^a   Ahn, Yeong Hwan ^a   Kim, Kihong ^a   Lim, Hanjo ^a   Steinmeyer, Günter ^b   Petrov, Valentin ^b   Griebner, Uwe ^b   Rotermund, Fabian ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; LASERS; MODULATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLID STATE LASERS; SPIN COATING;

AND RECOVERIES; BULK SOLIDS; MODULATION DEPTHS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSIONS; PROBE MEASUREMENTS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SATURATION FLUENCE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SPRAY METHODS; STABLE MODE LOCKING; TIME-RESOLVED; ULTRAFAST;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 54949108574     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2999593     Document Type: Article

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