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Nanotube and graphene saturable absorbers for fibre lasers

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Nanotubes and graphene have emerged as promising materials for use in ultrafast fibre lasers. Their unique electrical and optical properties enable them to be used as saturable absorbers that have fast responses and broadband operation and that can be easily integrated in fibre lasers.

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Figure 1: Various CNT-SA/graphene-SA integration methods for fibre devices.
Figure 2: Representative performance of ultrafast fibre lasers mode locked by CNT-SAs and graphene SAs.

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  • 30 October 2013

    In the Commentary entitled "Nanotube and graphene saturable absorbers for fibre lasers" (Nature Photon. 7, 842–845; (2013)), "electrical gating24" on page 844 should have been "electrical gating25", "compressed externally19,34" on page 845 should have been "compressed externally13,34" and "23. Davide Di Dio Cafiso, S. Opt. Lett. 38, 1745–1747 (2013)" in the reference section should have been "23. Davide Di Dio Cafiso, S. et al. Opt. Lett. 38, 1745–1747 (2013)”. These errors have been corrected in both the HTML and PDF versions

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