A compact, high power, ultrafast laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes
- 21 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 95 (25), 253102
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3275866
Abstract
We report ultrafast highly chirped pulses from an erbium doped, nanotube-mode-locked fiber oscillator. We generate average power and peak power by seeding a fiber amplifier. This paves the way to mode-locked all-fiber master oscillator amplifiers as economic and compact sources for high-power applications, such as micromachining and laser surgery.
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