A 113 fs fiber laser operating at 1.56 μm using a cascadable film-type saturable absorber with P3HT-incorporated single-wall carbon nanotubes coated on polyamide

doi:10.1364/OE.18.009712

A 113 fs fiber laser operating at 1.56 μm using a cascadable film-type saturable absorber with P3HT-incorporated single-wall carbon nanotubes coated on polyamide

Fumio Shohda, Masataka Nakazawa, Junji Mata, and Jun Tsukamoto »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 9, pp. 9712-9721 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.009712

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Abstract

We successfully fabricated a cascadable film-type single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) saturable absorber coated on aromatic polyamide film, in which the saturable absorption effect can be controlled with the number of films. A conductive polymer P3HT (poly-3-hexylthiophene) was adopted to obtain a uniform SWNT solution. We applied saturable absorber films to a passively mode-locked fiber laser and successfully generated a 113 fs, 42 MHz pulse by inserting two film layers between fiber connectors in the cavity.

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(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

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: March 18, 2010
Revised Manuscript: April 19, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: April 19, 2010
Published: April 23, 2010

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Fumio Shohda, Masataka Nakazawa, Junji Mata, and Jun Tsukamoto, "A 113 fs fiber laser operating at 1.56 μm using a cascadable film-type saturable absorber with P3HT-incorporated single-wall carbon nanotubes coated on polyamide," Opt. Express 18, 9712-9721 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-9-9712

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