Sub-ps erbium doped fiber laser with nanotube mode-locker

Author

Rozhin, A.G. ; Wang, F. ; Scardaci, V. ; Hennrich, F. ; Milne, W.I. ; Ferrari, A.C. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.

Author_Institution

Eng. Dept., Cambridge Univ., Cambridge

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We fabricate a sub-ps erbium doped fiber laser using a carbon nanotube-polymer composite mode-locker. The spectral and pulse width data are analysed to evaluate the contribution of different physical process into ultra-short lasing.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; erbium; fibre lasers; filled polymers; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; spectral line breadth; C; carbon nanotube-polymer composite mode-locker; intercavity power function; pulse width data; single wall carbon nanotubes; spectral width data; sub-ps erbium doped fiber laser; ultrashort lasing; Absorption; Biomedical optical imaging; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical films; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (160.4330) Nonlinear optical materials;

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.2006.4628080

Filename

4628080