A 113 fs fiber laser operating at 1.56 μm using a cascadable film-type saturable absorber with P3HT-incorporated single-wall carbon nanotubes coated on polyamide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9712-9721

  Shohda, Fumio ^a   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Mata, Junji ^b   Tsukamoto, Jun ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TORAY INDUSTRIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

AROMATIC POLYAMIDES; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; FIBER CONNECTOR; FILM LAYERS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION EFFECTS; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77952042631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009712     Document Type: Article

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