Title :
Passive harmonic mode-locking of fiber laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotube saturable absorber
Author :
Jun, Chang Su ; Im, Ju Hee ; Yoo, Sang Hwa ; Kim, Byoung Yoon ; Choi, Sun Young ; Rotermund, Fabian ; Yeom, Dong-Il
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
fDate :
Aug. 28 2011-Sept. 1 2011
Abstract :
We demonstrated harmonically mode-locked soliton laser based on evanescent field interaction of carbon-nanotube saturable absorbers. The repetition rate was 943 MHz at 34th harmonics with super-mode suppression of 60 dB at 18 mW output power.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser mode locking; nanophotonics; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; C; carbon nanotube saturable absorber; evanescent field interaction; fiber laser; frequency 943 MHz; laser output power; passive harmonic mode-locked soliton laser; power 18 mW; pulse repetition rate; supermode suppression; Fiber lasers; Harmonic analysis; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Measurement by laser beam; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference & Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/IQEC/PACIFIC RIM), 2011
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1939-4
DOI :
10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193817