@article{43d68b2f9b3941b5ac19564e76d60ec9,
title = "Soliton thulium-doped fiber laser with carbon nanotube saturable absorber",
abstract = "We report stabilization of a thulium-holmium codoped fiber soliton laser with a saturable absorber based on carbon nanotubes. The laser generates transform-limited 750-fs pulses with 0.5-nJ energy.",
keywords = "Midinfrared, Mode-locking, Saturable absorber (SA), Soliton pulse",
author = "K. Kieu and Wise, {F. W.}",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received September 01, 2008; revised October 16, 2008. First published December 09, 2008; current version published January 14, 2009. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health under Grant EB002019 and by the National Science Foundation (ECS-0500956). The authors are with the Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA (e-mail: kk532@cornell.edu; fwise@ccmr.cornell.edu). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this letter are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LPT.2008.2008727",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/LPT.2008.2008727",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "128--130",
journal = "IEEE Photonics Technology Letters",
issn = "1041-1135",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "3",
}