Switchable, dual-wavelength passively mode-locked ultrafast fiber laser based on a single-wall carbon nanotube modelocker and intracavity loss tuning

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1168-1173

  Zhao, Xin ^a   Zheng, Zheng ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Liu, Ya ^a   Jiang, Yaxing ^a   Yang, Xin ^b   Zhu, Jinsong ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLITONS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WAVELENGTH;

DUAL-WAVELENGTH; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; GAIN PROFILES; INTRACAVITY LOSS; MODELOCKING; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PICO-SECOND PULSE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; SWITCHABLE; ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 78751515758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001168     Document Type: Article

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