Shohda Fumio, Hori Yuichiro, Nakazawa Masataka, Mata Junji, Tsukamoto Jun
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
Opt Express. 2010 May 24;18(11):11223-9. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.011223.
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.