420 fs pulses from an ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide laser utilizing a carbon nanotube saturable absorber

Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO/QELS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Beecher, S J ^a   Thomson, R R ^a   Psaila, N D ^a   Kar, A K ^a   Sun, Z ^b   Hasan, T ^b   Rozhin, A G ^b   Ferrari, A ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ER-DOPED WAVEGUIDES; FS PULSE; MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; ULTRAFAST LASER; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEGUIDES;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77957586540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. K. M, Davis et al., "Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser," Opt. Lett. 21,1729-1731 (1996)
2. G. Delia Valle, et al., "C-band waveguide amplifier produced by femtosecond laser writing," Opt. Express 13, 5976-5982 (2005)
3. R. R. Thomson, et al. " Ultrafast Laser Inscription, of a High Gain Er-doped Bismuthate Glass Waveguide Amplifier," in Advanced SolidState Photonics, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper AWB7.
4. G. Delia Valle et al., "Passive mode locking by carbon nanotubes in a femtosecond laser written waveguide laser," Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 231115(2006)
5. 2 channel, waveguide lasers," Opt. Express 17, 22417-22422 (2009)
6. F. Wang et al., "Wideband-tuneable, nanotube mode-locked, fibre laser," Nat. Nanotechnol. 3,738-742 (2008).
7. V. Scardaci et al., "Carbon Nanotube Polycarbonate Composites for Ultrafast Lasers." Adv. Mater. 20,4040-4043 (2008).
8. E. J. R. Kelleher et al., "Nanosecond-pulse fiber lasers mode-locked with nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95,111.108 (2009).
9. Z. Sun et al., "L-band ultrafast fiber laser mode locked by carbon nanotubes." Appl. Phys. Lett. 93,061114 (2008).
10. T. Hasan et al., "Nanotube-Polymer Composites for Ultrafast Photonics," Adv. Mater. 21, 3874-3899 (2009).