Title :
Disentangling carbon nanotubes of broadland sub-100 fs optical switching
Author :
Cho, Won Bae ; Choi, Sun Young ; Yim, Jong Hyuk ; Lee, Soonil ; Yeom, Dong-H ; Kim, Kihong ; Rotermund, Fabian ; Schmidt, Andreas ; Petrov, Valentin ; Griebner, Uwe ; Steinmyer, Gunter
Author_Institution :
Div. of Energy Syst. Res., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
Controlling bundling and curl of carbon nanotubes permits ultrafast optical switching, which was demonstrated in a >500 nm near-infrated band by femtosecond mode-locking of three bulk lasers using one and the same saturable absorber.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical switches; broadband optical switching; bulk lasers; carbon nanotubes; femtosecond mode-locking; saturable absorber; ultrafast optical switching; Carbon nanotubes;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
