title: Mode locking of a Cr:YAG laser with carbon nanotubes.
abstract: We report on mode locking of a bulk Cr:YAG laser by using a transmission-type single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber. Stable and self-starting laser operation in the picosecond and femtosecond regimes is obtained at wavelengths around 1.5 microm. Tunable transform-limited sub-100 fs pulses are generated at a repetition rate of 85 MHz with an output power up to 110 mW.
authors: Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
authors: Won Bae
authors: WB
authors: Cho
authors: Andreas
authors: A
authors: Schmidt
authors: Sun Young
authors: SY
authors: Choi
authors: Valentin
authors: V
authors: Petrov
authors: Uwe
authors: U
authors: Griebner
authors: Günter
authors: G
authors: Steinmeyer
authors: Soonil
authors: S
authors: Lee
authors: Dong-Il
authors: DI
authors: Yeom
authors: Fabian
authors: F
authors: Rotermund
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon