Open Access131 fs, 33 MHz all-fiber soliton laser at 107 μm with a film-type SWNT saturable absorber coated on polyimide
Author(s) -
Fumio Shohda,
Yuichi Hori,
Masataka Nakazawa,
Junji Mata,
Jun Tanida
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.18.011223
Subject(s) - materials science , polyimide , saturable absorption , femtosecond , laser , soliton , optics , fiber laser , photonic crystal fiber , dispersion (optics) , fiber , optoelectronics , layer (electronics) , composite material , physics , nonlinear system , quantum mechanics
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.