Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber assisted high-power mode-locking of a Ti:Sapphire laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7833-7838

  Baek, In Hyung ^a   Choi, Sun Young ^a   Lee, Hwang Woon ^a   Cho, Won Bae ^a   Petrov, Valentin ^b   Agnesi, Antonio ^c   Pasiskevicius, Valdas ^d   Yeom, Dong Il ^a   Kim, Kihong ^a   Rotermund, Fabian ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ACCESSORIES; LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SAPPHIRE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

HIGH-POWER; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; MODELOCKING; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 79953871084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007833     Document Type: Article

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