| Autor: |
Fong, Kok Hann, Kikuchi, Kazuro, Goh, Chee S., Set, Sze Y., Grange, Rachel, Haiml, Markus, Schlatter, Adrian, Keller, Ursula |
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Optics Letters; January 2007, Vol. 32 Issue: 1 p38-40, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
We design single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) thin-film saturable absorbers (SAs) integrated onto semiconductor distributed Bragg reflectors for mode-locking solid-state Er:Yb:glass lasers. We characterize the low nonsaturable loss, high-damage-threshold SWNT SAs and verify their operation up to a pulse fluence of 2 mJ/cm^2. We demonstrate passive fundamental continuous-wave mode locking with and without group-delay dispersion compensation. Without compensation the laser produces chirped 1.8 ps pulses with a spectral width of 3.8 nm. With compensation, we obtain 261 fs Fourier-transform-limited pulses with a spectral width of 9.6 nm. |
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