Carbon nanotube-doped polymer optical fiber

Sho Uchida; Amos Martinez; Yong Won Song; Takaaki Ishigure; Shinji Yamashita

doi:10.1364/OL.34.003077

Carbon nanotube-doped polymer optical fiber

Sho Uchida, Amos Martinez, Yong Won Song, Takaaki Ishigure, Shinji Yamashita

Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics

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We present a method to fabricate graded-index multimode polymer optical fibers doped with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Such fiber structures provide the means to fully utilize the exceptional optical properties of the CNTs. The core region of the fiber is composed of CNTs and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) with the addition of diphenyl sulfide (DPS), which acts as the dispersion stabilizer of CNTs in PMMA as well as the dopant to increase the refractive index of the core. Utilizing 2.5 cm of the fiber as a saturable absorber, passively mode-locked lasing with duration of 3.0 ps and repetition rate of 30.3 MHz was demonstrated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3077-3079
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	34
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.34.003077
Publication status	Published - 2009 Oct 15

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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