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We report, for the first time to our knowledge, continuous-wave, broadly tunable laser operation of the Tm3+:KY3F10 gain medium between 2260 and 2385 nm and graphene mode locking, yielding 976-fs pulses near 2340 nm.

We report, to the best of our knowledge, direct generation of the shortest pulses from a single-walled carbon nanotube mode-locked solid-state laser with a Cr:LiSAF gain medium, yielding 23-fs, nearly transform-limited pulses at 850 nm.

We report, what is to our knowledge, the first demonstration of Kerr-lens mode-locked and graphene mode-locked operations of a 2.3-μm Tm3+:YLF laser, yielding ultrashort pulses of 514 fs and 2 ps, respectively, at 2303 nm.

We report on a mode-locked Tm,Ho:CLNGG laser employing SWCNTs as saturable absorber. Transform-limited 84-fs pulses are generated at ~2080 nm for a repetition rate of ~102 MHz with an average output power of 69 mW.

We report on the crystal growth, spectral properties, and mode-locked laser operation of Tm, Na:CNGG, generating pulses as short as 84 fs at ∼2018 nm using single-walled carbon nanotubes as a saturable absorber.