Carbon nanotubes for ultrafast fibre lasers

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess both remarkable optical properties and high potential for integration in various photonic devices. We overview, here, recent progress in CNT applications in fibre optics putting particular emphasis on fibre lasers. We discuss fabrication and characterisation of differ...

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Main Authors: Chernysheva Maria, Rozhin Aleksey, Fedotov Yuri, Mou Chengbo, Arif Raz, Kobtsev Sergey M., Dianov Evgeny M., Turitsyn Sergei K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-01-01
Series:Nanophotonics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2015-0156
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Summary:Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess both remarkable optical properties and high potential for integration in various photonic devices. We overview, here, recent progress in CNT applications in fibre optics putting particular emphasis on fibre lasers. We discuss fabrication and characterisation of different CNTs, development of CNT-based saturable absorbers (CNT-SA), their integration and operation in fibre laser cavities putting emphasis on state-of-the-art fibre lasers, mode locked using CNT-SA. We discuss new design concepts of high-performance ultrafast operation fibre lasers covering ytterbium (Yb), bismuth (Bi), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm) and holmium (Ho)-doped fibre lasers.
ISSN:2192-8606
2192-8614