• DocumentCode
    3561901
  • Title

    Sub-150 fs pulses from a Tm:KLuW oscillator in the 2 μm wavelength range

  • Author

    Schmidt, Andreas ; Choi, Sun Young ; Yeom, Dong-Il ; Rotermund, Fabian ; Mateos, Xavier ; Segura, Martha ; Diaz, Francesc ; Petrov, Valentin ; Griebner, Uwe

  • Author_Institution
    Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Short Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Femtosecond mode-locking of a Tm:KLu(WO4)2 laser using a single-walled carbon nanotubes based saturable absorber is demonstrated. Pulses as short as 142 fs are generated at a wavelength of ~2040 nm.
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical parametric oscillators; optical saturable absorption; potassium compounds; solid lasers; thulium; C; KLuW:Tm; femtosecond mode locking; optical oscillator; saturable absorber; single walled carbon nanotubes; wavelength 2 mum; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optimized production technology; Oscillators; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325603