Roadmap on chalcogenide photonics

B Gholipour, SR Elliott, MJ Müller… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Alloys of sulfur, selenium and tellurium, often referred to as chalcogenide semiconductors,
offer a highly versatile, compositionally-controllable material platform for a variety of passive …

Applications of microstructured optical fibers in ultrafast optics: a review

Z Tang, Z Zheng, B Li, Z Wei, J Sun - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the development of laser technology, microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) have
become an important part of ultrafast optics, providing excellent platforms for ultrafast laser …

Generation of single solitons tunable from 3 to 3.8 μm in cascaded Er3+-doped and Dy3+-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers

L Yu, J Liang, S Huang, J Wang, J Wang, X Luo… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
High-power tunable femtosecond mid-infrared (MIR) pulses are of great interest for many
scientific and industrial applications. Here we demonstrate a compact fluoride-fiber-based …

Fiber optical parametric oscillator made of soft glass

I Alamgir, M Rezaei, M Rochette - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Fiber optical parametric oscillators (FOPOs) are compact optical sources of coherent and
broadly tunable light compatible with operation in unconventional spectral bands. Highly …

Recent progress on the applications of micro/nanofibers in ultrafast optics

X He, Y Li, Z Wang, S Pian, X Liu, Y Ma - Frontiers of Information …, 2024 - Springer
Ultrafast fiber lasers are indispensable components in the field of ultrafast optics, and their
continuous performance advancements are driving the progress of this exciting discipline …

Supercontinuum generation optimization in a dispersion-varying chalcogenide fiber

I Alamgir, MHM Shamim, W Correr, Y Messaddeq… - Optics …, 2024 - Elsevier
We experimentally demonstrate that a variable longitudinal dispersion profile can enhance
supercontinuum generation in a chalcogenide tapered fiber, compared to tapered fibers with …

Thulium-doped fiber laser mode-locked by nonlinear polarization rotation in a chalcogenide tapered fiber

I Alamgir, M Rochette - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a thulium-doped fiber laser that is mode-locked thanks to nonlinear
polarization rotation (NPR) in a chalcogenide tapered fiber. The high nonlinearity of the …

Soliton order preservation for self-frequency shift with high efficiency and broad tunability

MHM Shamim, I Alamgir, M Rochette - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present a soliton order preservation mechanism leading to broad tunability with high
energy conversion efficiency (ECE) from a fiber-based soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS) …

Energy conversion efficiency from a high-order soliton to fundamental solitons in the presence<? TeX\break?> of Raman scattering

R Kormokar, MHM Shamim… - Journal of the Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We formulate the energy conversion efficiency from a high-order soliton to fundamental
solitons by including the influence of interpulse Raman scattering in the fission process. The …

Mid-infrared fibers and their applications to supercontinuum generation

F Smektala, E Serrano, D Bailleul, B Kibler - Specialty Optical Fibers, 2024 - Elsevier
Light generation over a very large spectral range from broadband nonlinear frequency
conversion of laser light into optical fibers, that is, a fiber supercontinuum source, enables a …