Concentration effect of carbon nanotube based saturable absorber on stabilizing and shortening mode-locked pulse

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3592-3600

  Chiu, Jin Chen ^a   Lan, Yi Fen ^b   Chang, Chia Ming ^a   Chen, Xi Zong ^a   Yeh, Chao Yung ^c   Lee, Chao Kuei ^a   Lin, Gong Ru ^b   Lin, Jiang Jen ^b   Cheng, Wood Hi ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; POLYMER FILMS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CONCENTRATION EFFECTS; CONCENTRATION OF; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; IN-DEPTH STUDY; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; MODELOCKING; MODULATION DEPTH; NANO-DEVICES; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; OUTPUT COUPLING; OUTPUT POWER; PULSE SHORTENING; PULSE WIDTH; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; STABLE MODES;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID STATE LASER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77149159438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003592     Document Type: Article

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