A wavelength-switchable passively harmonically mode-locked fiber laser with low pumping threshold using single-walled carbon nanotubes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 754-756

  Jiang, Kai ^a   Fu, Songnian ^a   Shum, P ^a   Lin, Chinlon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Optical fiber laser; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

A-TRANSFORM; CAVITY FREQUENCY; CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; LASER DIODES; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSEWIDTHS; PUMPING POWER; PUMPING THRESHOLD; REPETITION RATE; SUPERMODE SUPPRESSION; SWITCHABLE; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLITONS; TIMING JITTER; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77953260266     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2045647     Document Type: Article

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