Title :
Mode-locked fiber lasers using vertically aligned carbon nanotubes directly synthesized onto substrates
Author :
Inoue, Yuruke ; Yamashita, Shinji ; Maruyama, Shigeo ; Murakami, Youichi ; Yaguchi, Hiroshi ; Kotake, Tomoharu ; Set, Sze Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Frontier Informatics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate novel passively mode-locked fiber lasers using vertically aligned carbon nanotubes synthesized using the low-temperature alcohol catalytic CVD method. We found that the laser can be mode locked at wide range of slant angles.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; chemical vapour deposition; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; low-temperature alcohol catalytic CVD; passively mode-locked fiber lasers; vertically aligned carbon nanotubes; Absorption; Biomedical optical imaging; Carbon nanotubes; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor lasers; Substrates;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.193130
