A single-walled carbon nanotube wall paper as an absorber for simultaneously achieving passively mode-locked and Q-switched Yb-doped fiber lasers

• Main Authors: Li, Xiaohui, Wang, Yonggang, Wang, Yishan, Wang, Qi Jie, Zhao, Wei, Zhang, Yongzhe, Ya, Xia, Zhang, Ying
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Nanoelectronics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106791; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17812; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INEC.2013.6465978
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We demonstrate a fiber ring laser based on a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) wall paper absorber. It is found that the proposed Yb-doped fiber laser can either be operated in the mode-locked states or Q-switched states. First, SWCNT wall paper acts as a mode locker when the pump power is below...