Laserati

Z. Sun, A. G. Rozhin, F. Wang, V. Scardaci, W. I. Milne et al.
We fabricate a nanotube-polyvinyl alcohol saturable absorber with a broad absorption at 1.6 [mu]m. We demonstrate a pulsed fiber laser working in the telecommunication L band by using this composite as a mode locker. This gives ~49816 fs pulses at 1601 nm with a 26.7 MHz repetition rate. ... [Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 061114 (2008)] published Fri Aug 15, 2008.