PMID- 16599210
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060517
LR  - 20190703
IS  - 0146-9592 (Print)
IS  - 0146-9592 (Linking)
VI  - 31
IP  - 7
DP  - 2006 Apr 1
TI  - Polymer saturable absorber materials in the 1.5 microm band using 
      poly-methyl-methacrylate and polystyrene with single-wall carbon nanotubes and 
      their application to a femtosecond laser.
PG  - 915-7
AB  - We report saturable absorber materials in the 1.5 microm band that consist of 
      poly-methyl-methacrylate (PMMA) and polystyrene (PS) polymers with single-wall 
      carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). A very uniform dispersion of SWNT in PMMA and PS 
      polymers has been realized by using chlorobenzene or tetrahydrofuran as a 
      dispersion solvent. These materials, which are as thick as 1 mm, are easily 
      optically polished on both surfaces. This was difficult to achieve with previous 
      thin-film materials. By incorporating PMMA/SWNT as a saturable absorber, a 171 fs 
      pulse is successfully generated in a passively mode-locked fiber laser.
FAU - Nakazawa, Masataka
AU  - Nakazawa M
AD  - Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 
      Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan. nakazawa@rlec.tohoku.ac.jp
FAU - Nakahara, Seiji
AU  - Nakahara S
FAU - Hirooka, Toshihiko
AU  - Hirooka T
FAU - Yoshida, Masato
AU  - Yoshida M
FAU - Kaino, Toshikuni
AU  - Kaino T
FAU - Komatsu, Kyoji
AU  - Komatsu K
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Opt Lett
JT  - Optics letters
JID - 7708433
EDAT- 2006/04/08 09:00
MHDA- 2006/04/08 09:01
CRDT- 2006/04/08 09:00
PHST- 2006/04/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/04/08 09:01 [medline]
PHST- 2006/04/08 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1364/ol.31.000915 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Opt Lett. 2006 Apr 1;31(7):915-7. doi: 10.1364/ol.31.000915.