Title :
Q-switched modelocking using carbon nanotubes in an ultrafast laser inscribed ytterbium doped bismuthate glass waveguide laser
Author :
Mary, Rose ; Beecher, Stephen J. ; Brown, G. ; Zhipei Sun ; Popa, D. ; Hasan, T. ; Ferrari, A.C. ; Ohara, Shinya ; Kar, Ajoy K.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Sci., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
Abstract :
Passive modelocking using carbon nanotubes is achieved in a linear cavity waveguide laser realized by ultrafast laser inscription in ytterbium doped bismuthate glass. The pulses observed under a Q-switched envelope have a repetition rate of 1.5 GHz.
Keywords :
Q-switching; bismuth compounds; carbon nanotubes; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; Bi2O3:Yb; C; Q-switched envelope; Q-switching; carbon nanotubes; frequency 1.5 GHz; laser mode locking; linear cavity waveguide laser; ultrafast laser inscription; ytterbium doped bismuthate glass waveguide laser;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1
