Nonlinear optical absorption of single-wall carbon nanotubes in carboxymethylcellulose thin polymer film and its application as a saturable absorber for mode-locking in pulsed Nd:glass laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1624-1627

  Khudyakov, Dmitry V ^a   Lobach, Anatoly S ^a   Nadtochenko, Viktor A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GLASS; GLASS LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOTUBES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; PULSED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YARN;

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; COMPOSITE POLYMER; ITS APPLICATIONS; NEODYMIUM GLASS LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL ABSORPTION; SATURATED ABSORPTIONS; SATURATION INTENSITY; THIN POLYMER FILMS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 63149150680     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001624     Document Type: Article

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