131 fs, 33 MHz all-fiber soliton laser at 1.07 μm with a film-type SWNT saturable absorber coated on polyimide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11223-11229

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

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Electronic and Imaging Materials Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERIC FILMS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SOLITONS;

ALL FIBER; ALL-FIBER SOLITONS; ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; DISPERSION MANAGED SOLITONS; FEMTOSECONDS; LASER CAVITY; LASER CONFIGURATION; POLYIMIDE FILM; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITON LASER;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

NANOTUBE; ORGANOSELENIUM DERIVATIVE; POLY(3 HEXYL)SELENOPHENE; POLY(3-HEXYL)SELENOPHENE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MINIATURIZATION; NANOTUBES; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952798807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011223     Document Type: Article

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