Passive mode locking by carbon nanotubes in a femtosecond laser written waveguide laser

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作者：

Della Valle, Giuseppe

Osellame, Roberto

Galzerano, Gianluca

Chiodo, Nicola

Cerullo, Giulio

Laporta, Paolo

Svelto, Orazio

Morgner, Uwe

Rozhin, A. G.

Scardaci, V.

Ferrari, A. C.

机构：

[1] Politecn Milan, Dipartmento Fis, CNR, INFM,ULTRAS,Ist Foton & Nanotecnol, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[2] Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Quantenopt, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

[3] Univ Cambridge, Dept Engn, Cambridge CB3 0FA, England

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2006年 / 89卷 / 23期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

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D O I：

10.1063/1.2403912

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

The authors report on the first demonstration of mode locking in an active waveguide laser manufactured by femtosecond laser writing. The active waveguide is fabricated in an Er-Yb-doped phosphate glass, and the mode locker is a fiber-pigtailed saturable absorber device based on single-wall carbon nanotubes specially designed to efficiently operate at 1.5 mu m. Transform-limited 1.6 ps pulses were observed in a ring laser cavity configuration. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

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