title: Passively mode-locked lasers with 17.2-GHz fundamental-mode repetition rate pulsed by carbon nanotubes.
abstract: 17.2 GHz, the highest fundamental-mode repetition rate to our knowledge, of a carbon nanotube-based passively mode-locked laser is realized at 1570 nm by employing purified single-walled carbon nanotubes as saturable absorbers. The ultrashort linear laser cavity configured with a approximately 9 mm length is designed and demonstrated with our extremely miniaturized nanotube mode locker and a mirror-coated semiconductor optical amplifier as gain medium. The demonstrated pulsed laser has the inferred temporal pulse width of 14 ps and a 3 dB spectral bandwidth of 0.73 nm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. ywsong@sagnac.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yong-Won
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Chee S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Goh
authors.forename: Sze Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Set