Polarization maintaining passively mode-locked Er-doped ultrashort soliton fiber laser using single wall carbon nanotube polyimide film

Author

Seno, Y. ; Nishizawa, N. ; Sakakibara, Y. ; Sumimura, K. ; Itoga, E. ; Kataura, H. ; Itoh, K.

Author_Institution

Div. of Adv. Sci. & Biotechnol., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

All-polarization maintaining Er-doped ultrashort soliton fiber laser using single wall carbon nanotube polyimide film and variable output coupler is constructed and investigated. A 580 pJ and 46 fs ultrashort pulse is generated after compression.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; nanophotonics; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; polymer films; JkJk:Er; energy 580 pJ; polarization maintaining passively mode-locked laser; pulse compression; single wall carbon nanotube polyimide film; time 46 fs; ultrashort pulse generation; ultrashort soliton fiber laser; variable output coupler; Carbon nanotubes; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical coupling; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Polyimides; Pulse compression methods; Solitons; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (320.7090) Ultrafast lasers;

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

5225299