Characteristics of carbon nanotube saturable absorbers for solid-state laser mode-locking near 1.25 µm

Author

Cho, Won Bae ; Choi, Sun Young ; Yim, Jong Hyuk ; Lee, Soonil ; Yeom, Dong-Il ; Rotermund, Fabian ; Steinmeyer, Günter ; Petrov, Valentin ; Griebner, Uwe

Author_Institution

Div. of Energy Syst. Res., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Different types of carbon nanotube saturable absorbers were fabricated and characterized. Their application for solid-state laser mode-locking enabled the generation of sub-100-fs pulses near 1.25 mum with powers up to 280 mW at 79 MHz.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; laser mode locking; optical fabrication; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; carbon nanotube saturable absorber; laser mode-locking; laser pulse generation; optical fabrication; solid-state laser; time 100 fs; wavelength 1.25 mum; Absorption; Carbon nanotubes; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical saturation; Optical scattering; Solid lasers; (160.4236) Nanomaterials; (190.4360) Nonlinear optics, devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225044