Efficient diode-pumped Yb:LuYSiO5 laser mode locked by single-walled carbon nanotube absorber

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Qi ^a,b,c   Liu, Danhua ^a,b,c   Liu, Jie ^a,b,c   Wang, Yonggang ^b,c   Tang, Jau ^b,c   Zheng, Lihe ^c   Su, Liangbi ^c   Xu, Jun ^c  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

continuous wave mode locked; single walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber; Yb:LuYSiO5 crystal

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; LASER MODES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER); SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YARN; YTTERBIUM;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVE MODES; DIODE-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; SINGLE PULSE ENERGY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84947798035     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3647554     Document Type: Article

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