Title :
Passively mode-locked fiber laser incorporating single-walled carbon nanotube-filled hollow optical fiber
Author :
Choi, S.Y. ; Rotermund, F. ; Jung, H. ; Oh, K. ; Yeom, D.-I.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Energy Syst. Res., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
We propose a novel in-line saturable absorber by employing a carbon nanotube-filled hollow optical fiber. Robust and efficient all-fiber ultrafast lasers are realized based on this scheme, exhibiting 2.5-nm 3-dB spectral bandwidth at 18.5 MHz.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; C; all-fiber ultrafast lasers; hollow optical fiber; in-line saturable absorber; passively mode-locked fiber laser; single-walled carbon nanotube; Carbon nanotubes; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical films; Fiber laser; Hollow optical fiber; Mode-locked laser; Saturable absorber; Single-walled carbon nanotube;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292070
