Solid-state Er:Yb:glass laser mode-locked by using single-wall carbon nanotube thin film

被引：82

作者：

Fong, Kok Hann ^{[1
]}

Kikuchi, Kazuro

Goh, Chee S.

Set, Sze Y.

Grange, Rachel

Haiml, Markus

Schlatter, Adrian

Keller, Ursula

机构：

[1] Univ Tokyo, Res Ctr Adv Sci & Technol, Tokyo 1538904, Japan

[2] Univ Tokyo, Alnair Labs Corp, Komaba Open Lab, Tokyo 1538904, Japan

[3] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Quantum Elect, Dept Phys, CH-8903 Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2007年 / 32卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.32.000038

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We design single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) thin-film saturable absorbers (SAs) integrated onto semiconductor distributed Bragg reflectors for mode-locking solid-state Er:Yb:glass lasers. We characterize the low nonsaturable loss, high-damage-threshold SWNT SAs and verify their operation up to a pulse fluence of 2 mJ/cm(2). We demonstrate passive fundamental continuous-wave mode locking with and without group-delay dispersion compensation. Without compensation the laser produces chirped 1.8 ps pulses with a spectral width of 3.8 nm. With compensation, we obtain 261 fs Fourier-transform-limited pulses with a spectral width of 9.6 nm. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

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页码：38 / 40

页数：3

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