• DocumentCode
    559745
  • Title

    1070 NM passively mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber soliton laser with SWNT/PMMA saturable absorber

  • Author

    Hori, Yuichiro ; Zhang, Zuxing ; Nakazawa, Masataka

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    Oct. 30 2011-Nov. 2 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report an Yb-doped fiber soliton laser emitting a femtosecond pulse train at 1.07 μm using an SWNT-incorporated PMMA saturable absorber. Stable passive mode locking was obtained at a pump power of 179 mW, and a 543-fs, 15.1-MHz pulse train was generated.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; nanophotonics; nanotubes; optical polymers; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; ytterbium; PMMA; SWNT; femtosecond pulse train; frequency 15.1 MHz; passively mode-locked fiber soliton laser; power 179 mW; saturable absorber; wavelength 1070 nm; Optical coupling; Optical films; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microopics Conference (MOC), 2011 17th
  • Conference_Location
    Sendai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1344-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6110299