A passively mode-locked femtosecond soliton fiber laser at 1.5 µm with a CNT-doped polycarbonate saturable absorber

Author

Shohda, Fumio ; Shirato, Takafumi ; Nakazawa, Masataka ; Komatsu, Kyoji ; Kaino, Toshikuni

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report a new 1.5 mum passively mode-locked fiber laser incorporating a CNT-doped polycarbonate as a polymer saturable absorber. A 115-fs, 39-MHz soliton pulse was successfully generated with an average output power of 3.4 mW.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; CNT-doped polycarbonate saturable absorber; carbon nanotube; femtosecond soliton fiber laser; laser pulse generation; optical polymer; passively mode-locked fiber laser; power 3.4 mW; time 115 fs; wavelength 1.5 mum; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical polymers; Optical solitons; Power generation; Ultrafast optics; (140.3500) Lasers, erbium; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (140.4050) Mode-locked 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

5225406