Passive mode-locked lasing by injecting a carbon nanotube-solution in the core of an optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11008-11014

  Martinez, Amos ^a   Zhou, Kaiming ^b   Bennion, Ian ^b   Yamashita, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

A-CARBON; CENTRAL PEAKS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; FABRICATION METHOD; FABRICATION PROCESS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FIELD INTERACTIONS; IN-FIBER; INTERACTION LENGTH; MODELOCKING; NON-LINEAR MEDIA; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SELF-STARTING;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 77952790720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011008     Document Type: Article

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