Low noise GHz passive harmonic mode-locking of soliton fiber laser using evanescent wave interaction with carbon nanotubes

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19775-19780

  Jun, Chang Su ^a   Im, Ju Hee ^b   Yoo, Sang Hwa ^a   Choi, Sun Young ^b   Rotermund, Fabian ^b   Yeom, Dong Il ^b   Kim, Byoung Yoon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLITONS;

EVANESCENT WAVE; HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; HARMONIC ORDERS; HIGHER ORDER HARMONICS; LASER FIELDS; LOW NOISE; MW OUTPUT; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; PASSIVE HARMONIC MODE-LOCKING; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLID STATE LASER; SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053267206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019775     Document Type: Article

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