Dispersion-managed, high-power, Er-doped ultrashort-pulse fiber laser using carbon-nanotube polyimide film

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21874-21879

  Nishizawa, N ^a   Nozaki, Y ^a   Itoga, E ^b   Kataura, H ^b,c   Sakakibara, Y ^b,c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; DISPERSIONS; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERIC FILMS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLITONS;

AVERAGE POWER; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; ER-DOPED; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; HIGH-POWER; MODELOCKING; OUTPUT COUPLERS; OUTPUT COUPLING; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; POLYIMIDE FILM; PULSE ENERGIES; SINGLE-PULSE; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 80054930290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021874     Document Type: Article

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