High-performance laser mode-locker with glass-hosted SWNTs realized by room-temperature aerosol deposition

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4762-4767

  Kim, Hyung Jun ^a   Choi, Ho Jun ^a,b   Nam, Song Min ^a   Song, Yong Won ^b  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPOSITE FILMS; FIBER LASERS; GLASS LASERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THICK FILMS;

AEROSOL DEPOSITION; DENSE CERAMICS; HIGH QUALITY; INTRACAVITY POWER; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL NONLINEAR; OUTPUT PULSE; PULSE DURATIONS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRIES; REPETITION RATE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SWNT COMPOSITES;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GLASS;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; LASERS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79952164902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004762     Document Type: Article

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