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 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics