A passively mode-locked femtosecond soliton fiber laser at 1.5 μ with a CNT-doped polycarbonate saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21191-21198

  Shohda, Fumio ^a   Shirato, Takafumi ^a   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Komatsu, Kyoji ^a   Kaino, Toshikuni ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLYCARBONATES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS; YARN;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CAVITY LENGTH; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; FEMTOSECONDS; GAIN MEDIUM; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSEWIDTHS; SOLITON LASER;

PASSIVE MODE LOCKING;

EID: 58149139122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021191     Document Type: Article

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