Passive mode-locking of a Tm-doped bulk laser near 2 μm using a carbon nanotube saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 11007-11012

  Cho, Won Bae ^a,b   Schmidt, Andreas ^a   Yim, Jong Hyuk ^b   Choi, Sun Young ^b   Lee, Soonil ^b   Rotermund, Fabian ^a,b   Griebner, Uwe ^a   Steinmeyer, Günter ^a   Petrov, Valentin ^a   Mateos, Xavier ^a,c   Pujol, Maria C ^c   Carvajal, Joan J ^c   Aguiló, Magdalena ^c   Díaz, Francesc ^c  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; LASER MODE LOCKING; NANOTUBES; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); YARN;

CRYSTAL LASERS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; RECOVERY TIME; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT);

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; METAL; NANOMATERIAL; THULIUM;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TIME;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIO WAVES; THULIUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649246583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011007     Document Type: Article

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