Harmonic order-dependent pulsewidth shortening of a passively mode-locked fiber laser with a carbon nanotube saturable absorber

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1542-1552

  Cheng, Kuang Nan ^a   Lin, Yung Hsiang ^a   Yamashita, Shinji ^b   Lin, Gong Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes and confined systems; erbium lasers; fiber lasers; mode locked lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES AND CONFINED SYSTEMS; CARRIER RECOMBINATION TIME; ERBIUM LASER; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED PULSE TRAINS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) (PVA); SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84865321001     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2210398     Document Type: Article

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