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Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Metallic MXenes as High-Performance Saturable Absorbers [PDF]

Nanomaterials
Passively mode-locked lasers, as essential tools for generating ultrashort pulses, have found widespread applications in industrial manufacturing, optical communications, biomedical imaging, and fundamental scientific research.
Xin Xiong, Jiancheng Zheng, Jiahao Huang, Yuxian Yang, Xiyan Huang, Chibiao Liu   +5 more
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Recent Advances in MoS₂-Based Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers [PDF]

Nanomaterials
Ultrashort pulse mode-locked fiber lasers demonstrate significant application potential in optical communication, precision measurement, and ultrafast photonics.
Jiahao Huang, Jiancheng Zheng, Xin Xiong, Yuxian Yang, Xiyan Huang, Chibiao Liu   +5 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, Tian Carey, Leonardo Viti, Lianhe Li, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, Alessandro Tredicucci, Duhee Yoon, Panagiotis G. Karagiannidis, Lucia Lombardi, Flavia Tomarchio, Andrea C. Ferrari, Felice Torrisi, Miriam S. Vitiello   +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, Francesco P. Mezzapesa, Leonardo Viti, Nils Dessmann, Laura K. Diebel, Lianhe Li, A. Giles Davies, Edmund H. Linfield, Christoph Lange, Rupert Huber, Miriam S. Vitiello   +10 more
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Single-wall carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide-based saturable absorbers for low phase noise mode-locked fiber lasers [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2016
Low phase noise mode-locked fiber laser finds important applications in telecommunication, ultrafast sciences, material science, and biology, etc. In this paper, two types of carbon nano-materials, i.e.
Sun, Zhipei, Wang, Yonggang, Wang, Y, Li, Xiaohui, Wu, Kan, Wu, K, Meng, B, Zhang, Y, Yu, Xia, Shum, P.P, Yu, Xuechao, Yu, X, Meng, Bo, Wang, Q.J, Li, X, Zhang, Ying, Shum, Perry Ping, Wang, Qi Jie, Wang, Yishan, Sun, Z   +19 more
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Low-loss saturable absorbers based on tapered fibers embedded in carbon nanotube/polymer composites [PDF]

APL Photonics, 2017
The emergence of low-dimensional materials has opened new opportunities in the fabrication of compact nonlinear photonic devices. Single-walled carbon nanotubes were among the first of those materials to attract the attention of the photonics community ...
Amos Martinez, Mohammed Al Araimi, Artemiy Dmitriev, Petro Lutsyk, Shen Li, Chengbo Mou, Alexey Rozhin, Misha Sumetsky, Sergei Turitsyn   +8 more
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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, Rosa A. Perez-Herrera, María A. Quintela, Rubén Ruiz-Lombera, Manuel Lopez-Amo, José M. Lopez-Higuera   +5 more
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Low-Threshold and Long-Term Stable Soliton Fiber Laser Using PbSe/PbS Quantum Dot-Polystyrene Composite Saturable Absorber [PDF]

Nanomaterials
Colloidal 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, Jingping Shao, Chunxiao Liu, Ling Yun, Zuxing Zhang   +4 more
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Intra-Pulse Intensity Noise Shaping by Saturable Absorbers [PDF]

, 2023
In this work, we identify and characterize intra-pulse intensity noise shaping by saturable absorbers applied in mode-locked lasers and ultra-low noise nonlinear fiber amplifiers.
Edelmann, Marvin, Pergament, Mikhail, Kärtner, Franz X.   +2 more
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Solitons in ultrafast semiconductor lasers with saturable absorber [PDF]

Nanophotonics
We 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, Prati Franco, Brambilla Massimo, Columbo Lorenzo Luigi   +3 more
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