147 fs, 51 MHz soliton fiber laser at 1.56 μm with a fiber-connector-type SWNT/P3HT saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20943-20948

  Shohda, Fumio ^a   Shirato, Takafumi ^a   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Mata, Junji ^b   Tsukamoto, Jun ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TORAY INDUSTRIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLITONS; YARN;

CAVITY CONFIGURATION; FIBER CONNECTOR; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; REPETITION RATE;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GLASS FIBER; ORGANOSELENIUM DERIVATIVE; POLY(3 HEXYL)SELENOPHENE; POLY(3-HEXYL)SELENOPHENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICAL FIBERS; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349194617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020943     Document Type: Article

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