Visible‐wavelength pulsed lasers with low‐dimensional saturable absorbers
Nanophotonics, 2020 The recent renaissance in pulsed lasers operating in the visible spectral region has been driven by their significant applications in a wide range of fields such as display technology, medicine, microscopy, material processing, and scientific research ...
Jinhai Zou, Qiujun Ruan, Bin Xu
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2D Saturable Absorbers for Fibre Lasers [PDF]
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2015 Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are an emergent and promising platform for future photonic and optoelectronic applications. Here, we review recent progress demonstrating the application of 2D nanomaterials as versatile, wideband saturable absorbers ...
R I Woodward, E J R Kelleher
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Plasmonic Saturable Absorbers [PDF]
Advanced Photonics Research, 2021 Plasmonic materials are able to spatially confine light to a nanometer scale far smaller than the diffraction limit, resulting in drastically enhanced electrical field strength and stimulating applications in nonlinear optics, energy, and biomedicine ...
Di Zhao +3 more
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Solitons in ultrafast semiconductor lasers with saturable absorber [PDF]
NanophotonicsWe describe structure localization and dissipative solitons in a semiconductor laser with a saturable absorber exhibiting gain/absorption recovery times shorter than the photon lifetime.
Lugiato Luigi +3 more
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Terahertz saturable absorbers from liquid phase exfoliation of graphite [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 Graphene shows promise for saturable absorption, a key property for ultrafast lasing, yet graphene saturable absorbers operating in the terahertz region suffer from low absorption modulation.
Vezio Bianchi +13 more
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Ultrafast terahertz saturable absorbers using tailored intersubband polaritons [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Structures that can enhance the capabilities of quantum cascade lasers are highly sought after to improve their practicality for a range of applications.
Jürgen Raab +10 more
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Ultrafast Fiber Lasers with Low-Dimensional Saturable Absorbers: Status and Prospects [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Wide-spectral saturable absorption (SA) in low-dimensional (LD) nanomaterials such as zero-, one-, and two-dimensional materials has been proven experimentally with outstanding results, including low saturation intensity, deep modulation depth, and fast ...
Pulak Chandra Debnath, Dong-Il Yeom
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Virtual FBGs Using Saturable Absorbers for Sensing with Fiber Lasers [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 The spectral narrowing of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) introduced by unpumped Er-doped fiber (EDF) was analyzed for fiber lasers (FL). Owing to spatial hole burning (SHB), the spectral response of a virtual FBG can be employed for narrowing the band pass ...
Luis Rodriguez-Cobo +5 more
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A Comparison for Saturable Absorbers: Carbon Nanotube Versus Graphene
Advanced Photonics Research, 2022 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 development of different artificial SAs and semiconductor SA mirrors, carbon
Kuen Yao Lau +2 more
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Low-Threshold and Long-Term Stable Soliton Fiber Laser Using PbSe/PbS Quantum Dot-Polystyrene Composite Saturable Absorber [PDF]
NanomaterialsColloidal PbSe quantum dots are promising candidates as saturable absorbers for ultrafast fiber lasers, but their performance is often limited by surface-related defects and chemical instability, leading to aggregation under optical pumping.
Bin Yang +4 more
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