Carbon nanotube mode-locked opticallypumped semiconductor disk laser

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 17806-17813

  Seger, K ^a   Meiser, N ^a   Choi, S Y ^b   Jung, B H ^b   Yeom, D I ^b   Rotermund, F ^b   Okhotnikov, O ^c   Laurell, F ^a   Pasiskevicius, V ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; MODELOCKING; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASERS; OPTICALLY-PUMPED SEMICONDUCTORS; PULSE LENGTH; REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ABSORPTION; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ABSORPTION; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84880951935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017806     Document Type: Article

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