All-fiber mode-locked laser oscillator with pulse energy of 34 nJ using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 22667-22672

  Jeong, Hwanseong ^a   Choi, Sun Young ^a   Rotermund, Fabian ^a   Cha, Yong Ho ^b   Jeong, Do Young ^b   Yeom, Dong Il ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; HIGH PULSE ENERGY; INTRA-CAVITY DISPERSION; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; SATURATION FLUENCE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84907506139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.022667     Document Type: Article

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