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Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber assisted high-power mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laserIn Hyung Baek, Sun Young Choi, Hwang Woon Lee, Won Bae Cho, Valentin Petrov, Antonio Agnesi, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Dong-Il Yeom, Kihong Kim, and Fabian Rotermund »View Author Affiliations
In Hyung Baek,1
Sun Young Choi,1
Hwang Woon Lee,1
Won Bae Cho,1
Valentin Petrov,2
Antonio Agnesi,3
Valdas Pasiskevicius,4
Dong-Il Yeom,1
Kihong Kim,1
and Fabian Rotermund1,*
1Division of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, San 5 Wonchun, 443-749 Suwon, South Korea, 2Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics & Ultrafast Spectroscopy, D-12489 Berlin, Germany 3Dipartimento di Elettronica dell'Università di Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy 4Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden *Corresponding author: rotermun@ajou.ac.kr |
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 8, pp. 7833-7838 (2011)
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Abstract
We report on passive mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laser employing a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber (SWCNT-SA) specially designed and fabricated for wavelengths near 800 nm. Mode-locked pulses as short as 62 fs were generated at a repetition rate of 99.4 MHz. We achieved output powers from the SWCNT-SA mode-locked laser as high as 600 mW with a slope efficiency of 26%. The characteristics of SWCNT-SA-assisted mode-locking were compared with those of Kerr-lens mode-locking without SWCNT-SA.
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(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(140.7090) Lasers and laser optics : Ultrafast lasers
(160.4330) Materials : Nonlinear optical materials
(160.4236) Materials : Nanomaterials
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Lasers and Laser Optics
History
Original Manuscript: February 15, 2011
Revised Manuscript: March 31, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: March 31, 2011
Published: April 7, 2011
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In Hyung Baek, Sun Young Choi, Hwang Woon Lee, Won Bae Cho, Valentin Petrov, Antonio Agnesi, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Dong-Il Yeom, Kihong Kim, and Fabian Rotermund, "Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber assisted high-power mode-locking of a Ti:sapphire laser," Opt. Express 19, 7833-7838 (2011)
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- D. H. Sutter, G. Steinmeyer, L. Gallmann, N. Matuschek, F. Morier-Genoud, U. Keller, V. Scheuer, G. Angelow, and T. Tschudi, “Semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror assisted Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser producing pulses in the two-cycle regime,” Opt. Lett. 24(9), 631–633 (1999). [CrossRef]
- U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, “Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2(3), 435–453 (1996). [CrossRef]
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- M. S. Strano, C. A. Dyke, M. L. Usrey, P. W. Barone, M. J. Allen, H. Shan, C. Kittrell, R. H. Hauge, J. M. Tour, and R. E. Smalley, “Electronic structure control of single-walled carbon nanotube functionalization,” Science 301(5639), 1519–1522 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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