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CLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2011.cmk7
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Nanotube-based passively mode-locked Raman laser
Proceedings article published in 2011 by
C. E. S. Castellani,
Carlos E. Schmidt Castellani,
Edmund J. R. Kelleher,
John C. Travers,
Daniel Popa,
Zhipei Sun 
,
Tawfique Hasan,
Andrea C. Ferrari,
Sergei V. Popov,
J. R. Taylor
,
Tawfique Hasan,
Andrea C. Ferrari,
Sergei V. Popov,
J. R. Taylor
Abstract
We demonstrate passive mode-locking of a Raman fiber laser using a nanotube-based saturable absorber. The normal dispersion cavity generates highly-chirped 500 ps pulses that are compressed down to 2 ps, with 1.4 kW peak power.