Passively mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2SiO5 laser with reflection-type single-walled carbon nanotube absorber

Liming Su; Yonggang Wang; Jie Liu; Chao Feng; Xiuwei Fan; Lihe Zheng; Liangbi Su; Jun Xu

doi:10.1364/AO.51.001283

Passively mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2SiO5 laser with reflection-type single-walled carbon nanotube absorber

Appl Opt. 2012 Mar 20;51(9):1283-6. doi: 10.1364/AO.51.001283.

Authors

Liming Su¹, Yonggang Wang, Jie Liu, Chao Feng, Xiuwei Fan, Lihe Zheng, Liangbi Su, Jun Xu

Affiliation

¹ College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, China.

PMID: 22441473
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001283

Abstract

A reflection-type single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber fabricated by a vertical evaporation method was to our knowledge first used in a passively mode-locked Yb(3+):Sc(2)SiO(5)(Yb:SSO) laser. The laser operated at a repetition frequency of 94 MHz with a central wavelength of 1062.6 nm. A short pulse duration of 1.8 ps was produced with an average power of 349 mW; and the highest pulse energy of 3.7 nJ, corresponding to its maximum peak power, can reach 2.1 kW.