All-fiber Er-doped dissipative soliton laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotube saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22141-22146

  Im, Ju Hee ^a   Choi, Sun Young ^a   Rotermund, Fabian ^a   Yeom, Dong Il ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLITONS; SPINNING (FIBERS);

ALL FIBER; DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBERS; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; ER-DOPED; ER-DOPED FIBERS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NORMAL DISPERSION; OUTPUT POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE LASER; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SIDE-POLISHED FIBER; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; THERMAL DAMAGE;

CARBON FIBERS;

EID: 78049496765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022141     Document Type: Article

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