Mode-locked fiber lasers based on a saturable absorber incorporating carbon nanotubes

Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Technical Digest Series

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages PD44.1-PD44.3

  Set, S Y ^a   Yaguchi, H ^a   Tanaka, Y ^a   Jablonski, M ^a   Sakakibara, Y ^b   Rozhin, A ^b   Tokumoto, M ^b   Kataura, H ^c   Achiba, Y ^c   Kikuchi, K ^d  

^a YK Building 2F   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser ablation; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Ring lasers

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER ABLATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOTUBES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSED LASERS; RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE TECHNOLOGY; FIBER NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 8744227304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2003.316026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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