L-band ultrafast fiber laser mode locked by carbon nanotubes

Z. Sun; A. G. Rozhin; F. Wang; V. Scardaci; W. I. Milne; I. H. White; F. Hennrich; A. C. Ferrari

doi:10.1063/1.2968661

L-band ultrafast fiber laser mode locked by carbon nanotubes

Z. Sun, A. G. Rozhin, F. Wang, V. Scardaci, W. I. Milne, I. H. White, F. Hennrich, A. C. Ferrari

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Abstract

We fabricate a nanotube-polyvinyl alcohol saturable absorber with a broad absorption at 1.6 μm. We demonstrate a pulsed fiber laser working in the telecommunication L band by using this composite as a mode locker. This gives ∼498±16 fs pulses at 1601 nm with a 26.7 MHz repetition rate.

Original language	English
Article number	061114
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	93
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2968661
Publication status	Published - 25 Aug 2008

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