Title :
Single Wall Carbon Nanotube for mode locking solid-state Er:Yb:glass laser
Author :
Fong, Kok Hann ; Kikuchi, Kazuro ; Goh, Chee S. ; Set, Sze Y. ; Grange, Rachel ; Haiml, Markus ; Keller, Ursula
Author_Institution :
Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo
Abstract :
Designed for low nonsaturable loss, low saturation fluence and low modulation depth, we apply single wall carbon nanotube to the passive mode locking of a solid-state Er:Yb:glass laser at 1535 nm, generating 1.8 ps pulses.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; erbium; laser mode locking; solid lasers; ytterbium; Er:Yb; glass laser; low modulation depth; low nonsaturable loss; low saturation fluence; mode locking; single wall carbon nanotube; solid-state laser; wavelength 1535 nm; Carbon nanotubes; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Fiber lasers; Laser beam cutting; Laser mode locking; Optical design; Optical pulse generation; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Solid state circuits; (140.3580) Lasers, solid-state; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (160.4330) Nonlinear optical materials;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627855
