Generation of few-cycle pulses from an amplified carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber laser system

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 1521-1523

  Kieu, K ^a   Jones, R Jason ^b   Peyghambarian, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube saturable absorber (CNT SA); few cycle optical pulses; mode locking; supercontinuum (SC) generation

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FS PULSE; MODELOCKING; OPTICAL CYCLES; OPTICAL SPECTRA; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE GENERATORS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77957581096     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2063423     Document Type: Article

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