A 113 fs fiber laser operating at 1.56 μm using a cascadable film-type saturable absorber with P3HT-incorporated single-wall carbon nanotubes coated on polyamide

Fumio Shohda; Masataka Nakazawa; Junji Mata; Jun Tsukamoto

doi:10.1364/OE.18.009712

A 113 fs fiber laser operating at 1.56 μm using a cascadable film-type saturable absorber with P3HT-incorporated single-wall carbon nanotubes coated on polyamide

Fumio Shohda, Masataka Nakazawa, Junji Mata, Jun Tsukamoto

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Abstract

We successfully fabricated a cascadable film-type single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) saturable absorber coated on aromatic polyamide film, in which the saturable absorption effect can be controlled with the number of films. A conductive polymer P3HT (poly-3-hexylthiophene) was adopted to obtain a uniform SWNT solution. We applied saturable absorber films to a passively mode-locked fiber laser and successfully generated a 113 fs, 42 MHz pulse by inserting two film layers between fiber connectors in the cavity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9712-9721
Number of pages	10
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	18
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.009712
Publication status	Published - 2010 Apr 26

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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