Title :
Nonlinear Optical Waveguides Using Carbon Nanotube-Polyimide Composite Material
Author :
Sakakibara, Youichi ; Itatani, Taro ; Matsuzaki, Shun ; Oomuro, Toshiyuki ; Itoga, Emiko ; Tokumoto, Madoka ; Yamashita, Masafumi ; Kataura, Hiromichi
Author_Institution :
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan, Tokyo University of Science yo-sakakibara@aist.go.jp
Abstract :
We fabricated buried waveguide structures with a carbon nanotube-polyimide composite material as cores and examined their actual operation of saturable absorpton with various short pulse light sources from 0.3ps, 20MHz to 2.5ps, 1GHz.
Keywords :
Absorption; Carbon nanotubes; Composite materials; Nanocomposites; Nanostructured materials; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801187
