Double-wall carbon nanotubes for wide-band, ultrafast pulse generation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4836-4847

  Hasan, Tawfique ^a   Sun, Zhipei ^b   Tan, Pingheng ^c   Popa, Daniel ^a   Flahaut, Emmanuel ^d,e   Kelleher, Edmund J R ^f   Bonaccorso, Francesco ^g,h   Wang, Fengqiu ⁱ   Jiang, Zhe ^a   Torrisi, Felice ^a   Privitera, Giulia ^a   Nicolosi, Valeria ^j   Ferrari, Andrea C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^e INSTITUT CARNOT CIRIMAT   (France)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g CNR   (Italy)

^h ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

ⁱ NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Author keywords

double wall carbon nanotubes; polymer composites; saturable absorber; ultrafast laser

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DOUBLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; OPTICAL QUALITIES; POLYMER COMPOSITE; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS; ULTRA-FAST PHOTONICS; ULTRA-FAST PULSE GENERATION; ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PULSE;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITES; LASERS; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

EID: 84901684089     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500767b     Document Type: Article

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