Ultrafast stretched-pulse fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes

Zhipei Sun; Tawfique Hasan; Fengqiu Wang; Aleksey G. Rozhin; Ian H. White; Andrea C. Ferrari

doi:10.1007/s12274-010-1045-x

Ultrafast stretched-pulse fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes

Zhipei Sun, Tawfique Hasan, Fengqiu Wang, Aleksey G. Rozhin, Ian H. White, Andrea C. Ferrari

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Abstract

Ultrafast fiber sources having short pulses, broad bandwidth, high energy, and low amplitude fluctuations have widespread applications. Stretched-pulse fiber lasers, incorporating segments of normal and anomalous dispersion fibers, are a preferred means to generate such pulses. We realize a stretched-pulse fiber laser based on a nanotube saturable absorber, with 113 fs pulses, 33.5 nm spectral width and ~0.07% amplitude fluctuation, outperforming current nanotube-based designs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	404-411
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nano Research
Volume	3
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-010-1045-x
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2010

Funding

We acknowledge F. Hennrich for providing SWNTs and funding from a Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation, King’s College, Cambridge, ERC grant NANOPOTS, and EPSRC grant EP/G030480/1.

Keywords

Fiber laser
Nanotubes
Saturable absorber
Ultrafast pulse generation

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General Materials Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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