Integration and applications of nanomaterials for ultrafast photonics

X Zhao, H **, J Liu, J Chao, T Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomaterials with remarkable optical, mechanical, and electrical properties have shed
new light on various fields including optoelectronics, sensors, biomedicine, and ultrafast …

Multifunctional integration on optical fiber tips: challenges and opportunities

Y **ong, F Xu - Advanced photonics, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The flat endface of an optical fiber tip is an emerging light-coupled microscopic platform that
combines fiber optics with planar micro-and nanotechnologies. Since different materials and …

Graphdiyne‐polymer nanocomposite as a broadband and robust saturable absorber for ultrafast photonics

J Guo, R Shi, R Wang, Y Wang, F Zhang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As a rising star of all‐carbon nanomaterial, graphdiyne (GDY) has a direct natural bandgap
and features strong light–matter interaction, large optical absorption, superior chemical and …

Fiber-based dynamically tunable Lyot filter for dual-wavelength and tunable single-wavelength mode-locking of fiber lasers

Y Zhu, Z Cui, X Sun, T Shirahata, L **, S Yamashita… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a novel dynamically tunable fiber-based Lyot filter for the
realization of a dual-wavelength mode-locked fiber laser, operating at center wavelengths of …

Passively mode locked thulium and thulium/holmium doped fiber lasers using MXene Nb2C coated microfiber

H Ahmad, R Ramli, NN Ismail, SN Aidit, N Yusoff… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
As a result of the emergence of two-dimensional (2D) materials for various opto-electronics
applications, a new class of materials named MXenes have been attracting interests due to …

Recent research and advances of material-based saturable absorber in mode-locked fiber laser

KY Lau, D Hou - Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The incorporation of the material-based saturable absorber (SA) to generate mode-locked
fiber laser (MLFL) has been extensively explored and demonstrated. However, the material …

Dynamics of carbon nanotube-based mode-locking fiber lasers

L Huang, Y Zhang, X Liu - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Carbon nanotube (CNT) can work as excellent saturable absorber (SA) due to its
advantages of fast recovery, low saturation intensity, polarization insensitivity, deep …

A comparison for saturable absorbers: Carbon nanotube versus graphene

KY Lau, X Liu, J Qiu - Advanced Photonics Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Saturable absorbers (SAs) have been regarded as a low‐cost yet robust and compact
solution to pulse generation in different fiber and solid‐state ultrafast lasers. Following the …

Revelation of the birth and extinction dynamics of solitons in SWNT-mode-locked fiber lasers

Y Cui, X Liu - Photonics Research, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The dispersive Fourier transform (DFT) technique opens a fascinating pathway to explore
ultrafast non-repetitive events and has been employed to study the build-up process of …

Ameliorating the stability of erbium-doped fiber laser using saturable absorber fabricated by the pulsed laser deposition technique

H Asghar, R Ahmed, R Ajmal, ZA Umar… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In this paper, we present the performance and stability of an erbium-doped fiber laser
(EDFL) based on ZnO saturable-absorber (SA) prepared using two schemes: solution …