Recent progress on metal‐based nanomaterials: fabrications, optical properties, and applications in ultrafast photonics

B Fu, J Sun, Y Cheng, H Ouyang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomaterials have demonstrated excellent mechanical, thermal, optical, and electrical
properties in various fields, including 1D carbon nanotubes, as well as 2D materials starting …

Mechanical exfoliation of indium tin oxide as saturable absorber for Q-switched Ytterbium-doped and Erbium-doped fiber lasers

B Nizamani, AAA Jafry, S Salam, MM Najm… - Optics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work reports mechanically exfoliated indium tin oxide (ITO) as saturable absorber (SA)
for Q-switched operation in fiber lasers. The ITO is mechanically exfoliated from 99.99 …

Mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with zinc phthalocyanine thin film saturable absorber

RSM Soboh, AHH Al-Masoodi, FNA Erman… - Frontiers of …, 2022 - Springer
A stable mode-locked laser was demonstrated using a newly developed zinc
phthalocyanine (ZnPc) thin film as passive saturable absorber (SA) in ytterbium-doped fiber …

8-Hydroxyquinolino cadmium chloride hydrate for generating nanosecond and picosecond pulses in erbium-doped fiber laser cavity

MM Najm, SW Harun, S Salam, H Arof… - Optical Fiber …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we experimentally proposed and demonstrated the application of thin-film
saturable absorber (SA) based on 8-Hydroxyquinolino cadmium chloride hydrate (8 …

[HTML][HTML] Q-switched and mode-locked laser based on aluminium zinc oxide deposited onto D-shape fiber as a saturable absorber

B Nizamani, MIMA Khudus, S Salam, MM Najm… - Results in Optics, 2021 - Elsevier
In contrast to the direct insertion of a saturable absorber (SA) to fiber laser cavity, the D-
shape fiber coated with a SA material introduces more optical non-linearity and SA damage …

Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser with silicon oxycarbide saturable absorber

B Nizamani, FA Memon, ZA Umar, S Salam, MM Najm… - Optik, 2020 - Elsevier
We have experimentally demonstrated a Q-switched erbium doped fiber laser (EDFL) by
using silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) as saturable absorber (SA). The SiOC was prepared by …

Wideband ultrafast mode-locked praseodymium-and erbium-doped fiber lasers using zinc phosphate at 1.3-and 1.5 µm

H Ahmad, B Nizamani, MZ Samion, M Yasin - Optical Fiber Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The nonlinear optical behavior of novel zinc phosphate-based saturable absorber (SA) was
investigated for the first time in this work. Zinc phosphate was synthesized and coated over …

Antimonene-based saturable absorber for a soliton mode-locked and Q-switched fiber laser in the 2 μm wavelength region

H Ahmad, B Nizamani, MZ Samion, N Yusoff… - Chinese …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate antimonene as a saturable absorber (SA) to generate an ultrafast mode-
locked and Q-switched laser in the 2 μm wavelength region. The two antimonene-based …

Evanescent field interaction of 1550 nm pulsed laser with silver nanomaterial coated D-shape fiber

AR Muhammad, MF Rusdi, AAA Jafry… - Infrared Physics & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The paper presents a newly developed fiber-based saturable absorber (SA) operating at
1550 nm waveband. The fiber-based-SA constructed from side-polished fiber called D …

Ultrashort pulse laser at 1564.3 nm wavelength with E-beam deposited copper nanoparticles saturable absorber

AR Muhammad, AM Markom, SW Harun, Z Jusoh… - Optics & Laser …, 2021 - Elsevier
The experimental investigation to explore the generated laser output by using newly
developed copper nanoparticle (Cu-NP) as a saturable absorber (SA) at 1550 nm operating …