Ultralow-repetition-rate, high-energy, polarization-maintaining, Er-doped, ultrashortpulse fiber laser using single-wall-carbon-nanotube saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 20673-20680

  Senoo, Y ^a   Nishizawa, N ^b   Sakakibara, Y ^c   Sumimura, K ^a   Itoga, E ^c   Kataura, H ^c   Itoh, K ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; NANOTUBES; POLARIZATION; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERIC FILMS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CAVITY CONFIGURATION; ER-DOPED; FIBER LENGTH; HIGH ENERGY; OUTPUT PULSE; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; POLYIMIDE FILM; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE FIBER LASER; REPETITION RATE; RING CAVITY CONFIGURATION; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE-WALL;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 77958015873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020673     Document Type: Article

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