Femtosecond mode-locked fiber laser employing a hollow optical fiber filled with carbon nanotube dispersion as saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21788-21793

  Choi, Sun Young ^a   Rotermund, Fabian ^a   Jung, Hojoong ^b   Oh, Kyunghwan ^b   Yeom, Dong Il ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; EVANESCENT FIELDS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); YARN;

FABRICATION PROCESS; HOLLOW OPTICAL FIBERS; NANOTUBE DISPERSIONS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; RESONANT ABSORPTION; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT); SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GLASS FIBER; POLYMER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PHOTON; TIME;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72449124167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021788     Document Type: Article

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