Femtosecond laser pulse generation with a fiber taper embedded in carbon nanotube/polymer composite

被引：246

作者：

Kieu, Khanh ^{[1
]}

Mansuripur, Masud ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, Coll Opt Sci, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2007年 / 32卷 / 15期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.32.002242

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We propose and demonstrate a new saturable absorber based on a fiber taper embedded in a carbon nanotube/polymer composite. Greater than a 10% reduction in absorption (due to saturation) is directly measured for our saturable absorber. Using an embedded fiber-taper saturable absorber, we built an all-fiber mode-locked ring laser, which produces 594 fs/1.7 nJ pulses with a repetition rate of 13.3 MHz. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.

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