Polymer composites are one of the most attractive near‐term means to exploit the unique
properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene. This is particularly true for composites aimed�…

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�…

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

Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are at the center of nanotechnology research. Their
nonlinear optical behavior makes them promising for applications in ultrafast photonics.[1–8]�…

We demonstrate wide-band ultrafast optical pulse generation at 1, 1.5, and 2 μm using a
single-polymer composite saturable absorber based on double-wall carbon nanotubes�…

Carbon nanotubes possess not only outstanding mechanical, electrical and thermal
properties but also unique nonlinear optical properties. In this Feature Article, we review the�…

Single‐walled carbon‐nanotube absorbers are experimentally demonstrated for laser mode‐
locking. A saturable absorber device is used to mode‐lock three different bulk solid‐state�…

We present novel carbon-nanotube-based saturable absorbers. Using the low-temperature
alcohol catalytic chemical-vapor deposition method, high-quality single-walled carbon�…

In this work, we demonstrate a comprehensive study on the nonlinear parameters of carbon
nanotube (CNT) saturable absorbers (SA) as a function of the nanotube film thickness. We�…

A freestanding membrane composed of a nanofiber network of a graphene–polymer
nanocomposite is fabricated by electrospinning and applied as an optical element in fiber�…