A passively mode-locked femtosecond soliton fiber laser at 1.5 μm with a CNT-doped polycarbonate saturable absorber
Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 26, pp. 21191-21198 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.021191
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Abstract
We report a new 1.5 µm femtosecond fiber soliton laser incorporating a polymer saturable absorber that consists of polycarbonate (PC) with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We installed the polymer in a fiber laser with a cavity length of 5.1 m, in which an erbium-doped fiber was used as the gain medium. Stable passive mode-locking was achieved for a pump power of 303 mW at 39 MHz, and a pulse width of 115 fs with an average output power of 3.4 mW was obtained.
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OCIS Codes
(140.3500) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, erbium
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics
History
Original Manuscript: September 29, 2008
Revised Manuscript: November 20, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: November 20, 2008
Published: December 8, 2008
Citation
Fumio Shohda, Takafumi Shirato, Masataka Nakazawa, Kyoji Komatsu, and Toshikuni Kaino, "A passively mode-locked femtosecond soliton fiber laser at 1.5 μm with a CNT-doped polycarbonate saturable absorber," Opt. Express 16, 21191-21198 (2008)
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