Title :
Femtosecond mode-locking of a ytterbium-doped fiber laser using a carbon-nanotube-based mode-locker with ultra-wide absorption band
Author :
Goh, Chee S. ; Kikuchi, K. ; Set, Sze Y. ; Tanaka, D. ; Kotake, T. ; Jablonski, M. ; Yamashita, S. ; Kobayashi, T.
Author_Institution :
Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate the first mode-locked femtosecond ytterbium-doped fiber laser using a carbon-nanotube-based mode-locker at 1 μm wavelength regime. The laser produces nearly transform-limited hyperbolic-secant pulse with 180 fs pulse width at a repetition rate of 23.3 MHz.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; ytterbium; 1 mum; 180 fs; 23.3 MHz; C; carbon-nanotube; femtosecond mode-locking; femtosecond pulse production; hyperbolic-secant pulse; mode-locker; transform-limited pulse; ultrawide absorption band; ytterbium-doped fiber laser; Absorption; Carbon nanotubes; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202227
