Title :
A 2 cm-long fiber Fabry-Perot mode-locked laser incorporating carbon nanotubes
Author :
Yamashita, S. ; Inoue, Y. ; Hsu, K. ; Set, S.Y. ; Jablonski, M. ; Yaguchi, I. ; Kotake, T. ; Sato, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate passive mode-locking of short-cavity (/spl sim/2 cm) fiber Fabry-Perot laser by incorporating carbon nanotubes as a saturable absorber. Stable pulses are generated with pulsewidth as short as 0.68 ps and repetition rate as high as 5.18 GHz.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; 0.68 ps; 2 cm; 5.18 GHz; C; Fabry-Perot laser; carbon nanotubes; mode-locked laser; passive mode-locking; saturable absorber; short-cavity fiber laser; stable pulses;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
