Title :
Passively mode-locked erbium doped fiber ring laser with charcoal nano-particle based saturable absorber
Author :
Lin, Yung-Hsiang ; Lin, Gong-Ru
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
Free-standing charcoal nano-particles is used as the saturable absorber locating between connector end-faces in passively mode-locked erbium doped fiber ring laser (EDFL) to obtain the nearly transform-limited ultrashort laser pulsewidth of 1.96 ps.
Keywords :
charcoal; erbium; laser mode locking; nanoparticles; nanophotonics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre couplers; optical saturable absorption; ring lasers; EDFL; connector end-faces; free-standing charcoal nanoparticles; passively mode-locked erbium doped fiber ring laser; saturable absorber; time 1.96 ps; transform-limited ultrashort laser pulsewidth; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
