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Carbon Nanotube Polycarbonate Composites for Ultrafast Lasers†

  1. Vittorio Scardaci1,
  2. Zhipei Sun1,
  3. Frank Wang1,
  4. Aleksey G. Rozhin1,
  5. Tawfique Hasan1,
  6. Frank Hennrich2,
  7. Ian H. White1,
  8. William I. Milne1,
  9. Andrea C. Ferrari1,*

Article first published online: 24 SEP 2008

DOI: 10.1002/adma.200800935

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 20, Issue 21, pages 4040–4043, November 3, 2008

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How to Cite

Scardaci, V., Sun, Z., Wang, F., Rozhin, A. G., Hasan, T., Hennrich, F., White, I. H., Milne, W. I. and Ferrari, A. C. (2008), Carbon Nanotube Polycarbonate Composites for Ultrafast Lasers. Advanced Materials, 20: 4040–4043. doi: 10.1002/adma.200800935

Author Information

  1. 1

    University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA (UK)

  2. 2

    Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie (INT) Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)

*University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA (UK).

  1. †

    The authors acknowledge funding from the EPSRC, grants GR/S97613/01 and EP/E500935/1, and Advance Nanotech Inc. ACF acknowledges funding from The Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust. ACF and AGR acknowledge funding from the Isaac Newton Trust and the Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Centre.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 29 OCT 2008
  2. Article first published online: 24 SEP 2008
  3. Manuscript Revised: 23 JUN 2008
  4. Manuscript Received: 6 APR 2008

Funded by

  • EPSRC. Grant Numbers: GR/S97613/01, EP/E500935/1
  • Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust
  • Isaac Newton Trust
  • Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Centre

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Keywords:

  • carbon nanotube composites;
  • conjugated polymers;
  • nonlinear optics;
  • photonics;
  • polymer composites;
  • lasing

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Carbon nanotube polycarbonate composites with controlled nanotube-bundle size are prepared by dispersion with conjugated polymers followed by blending with polycarbonate. The composite has uniform sub-micrometer nanotube bundles in high concentration, shows strong nonlinear optical absorption, and generates 193 fs pulses when used as passive mode-locker in a fiber laser.

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