Advances in SESAM and carbon nanotube saturable absorber mode locked fiber lasers

Author

Zhang, Zhigang ; Zhang, Meng ; Chen, Lingling ; Jiao, Yiyang ; Tu, Zhao ; Ren, Ling ; Cai, Yue ; Zhou, Chun

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Univ. of Beijing, Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The paper summarizes recent advances in Er and Yb doped mode locked fiber lasers with saturable absorbers such as semiconductor and carbon nanotube saturable absorbers.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; erbium; fibre lasers; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor nanotubes; ytterbium; C; Er doped fiber lasers; JkJk:Er; JkJk:Yb; SESAM; Yb doped fiber lasers; carbon nanotube saturable absorber; linear cavity configuration; mode locked fiber lasers; ring cavity configuration; semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors; Absorption; Carbon nanotubes; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Semiconductor lasers; Fiber lasers; Mode locking; Saturable absorbers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292098

Filename

5292098