5-GHz pulsed fiber Fabry-Pe´rot laser mode-locked using carbon nanotubes

Author

Yamashita, Shinji ; Inoue, Yusuke ; Hsu, Kevin ; Kotake, Tomoharu ; Yaguchi, Hiroshi ; Tanaka, Daisuke ; Jablonski, Mark ; Set, Sze Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Volume

17

Issue

4

fYear

2005

fDate

4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

750

Lastpage

752

Abstract

We demonstrate passive mode-locking of a short-cavity (∼2 cm) fiber Fabry-Pe´rot laser by incorporating a carbon-nanotube-based saturable absorber. Stable pulses are generated with a pulsewidth as short as 0.68 ps at a repetition rate as high as 5.18 GHz. This is the smallest femtosecond fiber pulsed laser ever demonstrated to date.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; 0.68 ps; 2 cm; 5 GHz; 5.18 GHz; C; Fabry-Perot laser; carbon nanotubes; femtosecond laser; fiber laser; mode-locked laser; optical saturable absorber; passive mode-locking; pulsed laser; short-cavity lasers; stable pulses; Carbon nanotubes; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast optics; Carbon nanotube; mode-locked lasers; optical fiber lasers; saturable absorber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.843932

Filename

1411864