One and two dimensional forms of carbon, Carbon nanotube and graphene, have
interesting and useful not only electronic but also photonic properties. This tutorial will …

Saturable absorbers (SAs) have been regarded as a low‐cost yet robust and compact
solution to pulse generation in different fiber and solid‐state ultrafast lasers. Following the …

Ultrafast lasers play an increasingly important role in many applications. Nanotubes and
graphene have emerged as promising novel saturable absorbers for passive mode-locking …

The efficient passive mode-locking of a Ti: sapphire laser with a monolayer graphene
saturable absorber is demonstrated for the first time. High-quality and large-area (1 in.) …

A semiconductor disk laser based on an InGaAs/AlGaAs quantum-well gain medium was
mode-locked by a fast semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. By high-order harmonic …

A wide range of saturable absorbers composed of novel low-dimensional nanomaterials
were fabricated, and their linear and nonlinear optical properties were characterized …

Single–walled carbon nanotube saturable absorbers were designed and fabricated for
passive mode-locking of bulk lasers operating in the 2 μm spectral range. Mode-locked …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are carbon based nanomaterials with long hollow structure and
diameter at the nanometer scale. The chirality in combination with the radius determines the …

The hybrid action of quantum-dot saturable absorber and Kerr-lens mode locking in a diode-
pumped Yb: KGW laser was demonstrated. Using a quantum-dot saturable absorber with a …

We examined methods of controlling the pulse duration, spectral width and wavelength of
the output from an all-fiber Yb laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes. It is shown that a …