Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2242-2244 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Optics Letters |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1 2007 |
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Femtosecond laser pulse generation with a fiber taper embedded in carbon nanotube/polymer composite. / Kieu, Khanh Q; Mansuripur, Masud.
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