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4 May 2011 Mode-locked fiber laser using SU8 resist incorporating carbon nanotubes
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We report the fabrication of a saturable absorber made of a novel polymer SU8 doped with Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs). A passive mode-locked ring cavity fiber laser was built with a 100 μm thick SU8/SWCNT film inserted between two FC/APC connectors. Self-starting passively mode-locked lasing operation was observed at 1572.04 nm, with a FWHM of 3.26 nm. The autocorrelation trace was 1.536 ps corresponding to a pulse-width of 871 fs. The time-bandwidth product was 0.344, which is close enough to transform-limited sech squared pulses. The repetition rate was 21.27 MHz, and a maximum average output power of 1 mW was also measured.
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Ivan Hernandez-Romano, Dimitrios Mandridis, Daniel A. May-Arrioja, Jose J. Sanchez-Mondragon, and Peter J. Delfyett "Mode-locked fiber laser using SU8 resist incorporating carbon nanotubes", Proc. SPIE 8054, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications VII, 80540R (4 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884358
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KEYWORDS
Mode locking

Fiber lasers

Polymers

Connectors

Carbon nanotubes

Glasses

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