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

By Zhipei Sun, Tawfique Hasan, Fengqiu Wang, Aleksey Rozhin, I. White, Andrea C. Ferrari. 2010

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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.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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