title: 131 fs, 33 MHz all-fiber soliton laser at 1.07 microm with a film-type SWNT saturable absorber coated on polyimide.
abstract: We present a 1.07 microm all-fiber femtosecond soliton laser employing a film-type saturable absorber with a P3HT (poly-3-hexylthiophene) incorporated SWNT coated on polyimide film. We optimized the laser cavity as a dispersion-managed soliton laser with photonic crystal fiber (PCF) as an anomalous dispersion fiber at 1.07 microm. As a result, a 131 fs, 33 MHz pulse was successfully generated with a simple laser configuration.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan. f-shohda@riec.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shohda
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakazawa
authors.forename: Junji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mata
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tsukamoto
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D008904:Miniaturization; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016566:Organoselenium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D016566:Organoselenium Compounds; C526212:poly(3-hexyl)selenophene