Saturable absorber mirrors based on polymer-embedded carbon nanotubes and their application to ultrashort pulse generation

Author

Schibli, T.R. ; Minoshima, K. ; Kataura, H. ; Itoga, E. ; Tokumoto, M. ; Sakakibara, Y.

Author_Institution

AIST, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Tsukuba

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We describe the fabrication of a novel type of saturable absorber mirrors based on polymer embedded carbon nanotubes and we demonstrate their performance in mode-locking an Er/Yb:glass laser: 68 fs (45fs Fourier limit) at 85 MHz repetition-rate.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; erbium; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; nanophotonics; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical polymers; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; ytterbium; JkJk:Er,Yb; mode-locking laser; polymer-embedded carbon nanotubes; saturable absorber mirror fabrication; time 68 fs; ultrashort pulse generation; Absorption; Carbon nanotubes; Coatings; Erbium; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical polymers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; (140.7090) Ultrafast lasers; (160.4330) Nonlinear optical materials; (190.4710) Optical nonlinearities in organic materials; (230.4170) Multilayers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627782

Filename

4627782