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Steady state mode-locking of a 1.34 μm Nd:YVO4 laser using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber

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Steady state mode-locked operation of a neodymium laser operating on the 4F3/2 → 4I13/2 transition around 1.3 μm is achieved for the first time using transmitting single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) saturable absorber. The Nd:YVO4 laser cavity was optimized for large fundamental mode volume generating an average power of 0.8 W at a repetition rate of 127 MHz in a stable train of 16.5 ps long pulses.

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This work has been supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Science and Education under grant number DO 02/134/2009, by DAAD (Germany) with grant number 50448357, and by the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (grant numbers 2011-0017494 and 2010-00118855).

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  1. Department of Quantum Electronics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, 5 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria

    H. Iliev & I. Buchvarov

  2. Division of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, 443-749, Suwon, Republic of Korea

    S. Y. Choi, K. Kim & F. Rotermund

  3. Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 2A Max-Born-Str., 12489, Berlin, Germany

    U. Griebner & V. Petrov

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Iliev, H., Buchvarov, I., Choi, S.Y. et al. Steady state mode-locking of a 1.34 μm Nd:YVO4 laser using a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber. Appl. Phys. B 106, 1–4 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4836-1

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