Multi-gigahertz repetition rate passively modelocked fiber lasers using carbon nanotubes

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6155-6163

  Martinez, Amos ^a   Yamashita, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; YTTERBIUM;

ALL FIBER; ALL-FIBER LASERS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HIGH-GAIN; HIGHLY NONLINEAR DISPERSION-SHIFTED FIBERS; IN-FIELD; KEY COMPONENT; LASER OPERATIONS; LASER OUTPUT; LONGITUDINAL MODES; LOW LOSS; LOW NOISE; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PHOSPHOSILICATE FIBERS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PULSEWIDTHS; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

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

EID: 79953183988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006155     Document Type: Article

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