N. N. Il'ichev, E. D. Obraztsova, S. V. Garnov, S. E. Mosaleva, “Nonlinear transmission of single-wall carbon nanotubesin heavy water at a wavelength of 1.54 μm and self-mode locking in a Er<sup>3+</sup> : glass laser obtained using a passive nanotube switch”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2004, Volume 34, Number 6,Pages <nobr>572

This article is cited in 41 papers

Nonlinear optical phenomena

Nonlinear transmission of single-wall carbon nanotubesin heavy water at a wavelength of 1.54 μm and self-mode locking in a Er³⁺ : glass laser obtained using a passive nanotube switch

N. N. Il'ichev^a, E. D. Obraztsova^b, S. V. Garnov^a, S. E. Mosaleva^a

^a Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Natural Sciences Center at General Physics Institute of RAS, Moscow

Abstract: The nonlinear transmission of light by single-wall carbon nanotube suspensions in D₂O at a wavelength of 1.54 μm is studied. For the 250-ns probe pulse and the 40-MW cm^-2 maximum intensity of radiation incident on a cell, the decrease in the absorption coefficient was 3.6 cm^-1 while the absorption coefficient in a weak field was 17 cm^-1. Q-switching and self-mode locking were obtained in a pulsed Er³⁺ : glass laser by using a cell with the nanotube suspension as a passive filter.

PACS: 78.67.Ch, 42.70.Nq, 42.60.Fc, 42.55.Rz

Received: 08.04.2004