• DocumentCode
    3559374
  • Title

    Soliton Thulium-Doped Fiber Laser With Carbon Nanotube Saturable Absorber

  • Author

    Kieu, K. ; Wise, F.W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    128
  • Lastpage
    130
  • Abstract
    We report stabilization of a thulium-holmium codoped fiber soliton laser with a saturable absorber based on carbon nanotubes. The laser generates transform-limited 750-fs pulses with 0.5-nJ energy.
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; thulium; C; JkJk:Tm; carbon nanotube saturable absorber; energy 0.5 nJ; laser mode-locking; soliton thulium-doped fiber laser; thulium-holmium codoped fiber soliton laser; time 750 fs; transform-limited laser pulses; Midinfrared; mode-locking; saturable absorber (SA); soliton pulse;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Location
    12/9/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2008.2008727
  • Filename
    4703254