Broadband laser polarization control with aligned carbon nanotubes

Nanoscale

Volumn 7, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 11199-11205

  Yang, He ^a   Fu, Bo ^a,b   Li, Diao ^a,c   Tian, Ying ^a   Chen, Ya ^a   Mattila, Marco ^a   Yong, Zhenzhong ^d   Li, Ru ^d   Hassanien, Abdou ^e   Yang, Changxi ^b   Tittonen, Ilkka ^a   Ren, Zhaoyu ^c   Bai, Jintao ^c   Li, Qingwen ^d   Kauppinen, Esko I ^a   Lipsanen, Harri ^a   Sun, Zhipei ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^e JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; LASER OPTICS; POLARIZATION; YARN;

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; MAXIMUM EXTINCTION RATIOS; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY DETECTION; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 84931444924     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr01904d     Document Type: Article

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