DocumentCode
1980498
Title
Femtosecond laser pulse generation in an erbium-doped ring cavity fiber laser with a single-wall carbon-nanotube saturable absorber
Author
Cai, Yue ; Zhou, Chun ; Ren, Ling ; Li, Peng ; Jiang, Kaili ; Zhang, Zhigang
Author_Institution
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Univ. of Beijing, Beijing, China
fYear
2009
fDate
30-3 Aug. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We demonstrate a new saturable absorber mirror coated with thin-film single-wall carbon nanotubes. Using such a device, we build a T-type ring cavity fiber laser and obtained pulses of 586 fs.
Keywords
carbon nanotubes; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; optical films; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; ring lasers; JkJk:Er; T-type ring cavity fiber laser; femtosecond laser pulse generation; saturable absorber mirror; single wall carbon nanotube saturable absorber; thin film single wall carbon nanotube; time 586 fs; Carbon nanotubes; Collimators; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical retarders; Pulse generation; Ring lasers; Silver; Fiber lasers; Mode-locked lasers; Nanomaterials;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location
Shanghai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-3830-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292593
Filename
5292593
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