• DocumentCode
    577931
  • Title

    Pulsewidth switchable, wavelength tuneable ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes

  • Author

    Wang, F. ; Popa, D. ; Sun, Z. ; Hasan, T. ; Torrisi, F. ; Going, R. ; Ferrari, A.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    288
  • Lastpage
    289
  • Abstract
    Employing a nanotube-based saturable absorber, we demonstrate a continuously tunable (1533-1563nm) ultrafast fiber laser, with output pulsewidth switchable between picosecond (1.2 ps) and femtosecond (610 fs) regimes.
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; optical pulse generation; C; carbon nanotubes; mode locking; nanotube-based saturable absorber; optical pulse generation; pulsewidth switchable ultrafast fiber laser; time 1.2 ps to 610 fs; wavelength 1533 nm to 1563 nm; wavelength-tuneable ultrafast fiber laser; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber filters; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0731-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358605
  • Filename
    6358605