Title :
Enhanced passive mode-locking of fiber lasers using carbon nanotubes deposited onto D-shaped fiber
Author :
Song, Yong-Won ; Goh, Chee Seong ; Set, Sze Y. ; Fong, Kok Hann ; Yamashita, Shinji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a novel passive mode-locking enhanced by the interaction of carbon-nanotubes with the evanescent-field of propagating beam in a D-shaped fiber. The scheme featuring long lateral interaction guarantees strong nonlinear effect from the nanotubes.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibres; optical materials; C; carbon nanotubes; evanescent-field; fiber lasers; passive mode-locking; Absorption; Carbon nanotubes; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Optical surface waves; Pulsed laser deposition;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215894
