Mode-locked L-band bismuth–erbium fiber laser using carbon nanotubes

Ahmad, Harith; Zulkifli, Ahmad Zarif; Muhammad, F.D.; Zulkifli, Mohd Zamani; Thambiratnam, Kavintheran; Harun, Sulaiman Wadi

doi:10.1007/s00340-013-5616-x

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“…In addition, compared with traditional SAs, including semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors or carbon nanotubes, graphene does not require bandgap optimization and diameter or chiral adjustment, thus greatly simplifying the preparation process. With these advantages, graphene and its derivatives, such as graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, and graphene composite materials, have been widely developed in mode‐locked fiber lasers, as shown in Table . In terms of the performance of these mode‐locked lasers, some exciting results have been obtained, including minimum pulse‐width, maximum output power, and repetition rates of 29 fs, 520 mW, and 162 GHz, respectively.…”

Section: Versatile Pulsed Lasers Using 2d Layered Materialsmentioning

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2D Layered Materials: Synthesis, Nonlinear Optical Properties, and Device Applications

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Wang

et al. 2019

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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In recent years, 2D layered materials, including graphene, topological insulators, transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, MXenes, graphitic carbon nitride, and metal‐organic frameworks, have attracted considerable interest due to their potential applications in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, and energy. Their rise in the field of nonlinear photonics began around 2009 and has become an important research direction. Here, the synthesis techniques, nonlinear optical properties, integration strategies, and device applications of layered materials are reviewed. In terms of nonlinear optical properties, the focus is on saturable absorption and Kerr nonlinearity. On this basis, their applications in various pulsed lasers, including fiber lasers, solid‐state lasers, waveguide lasers, and related nonlinear optical phenomenon, are summarized. In addition, novel optical devices using layered materials, such as optical modulators, optical polarizers, optical switchers, and even all‐optical device, are also involved. It is believed that the development of 2D layered materials in the field of photonics will continue to deepen, thus laying a good foundation for its practical application.

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Section: Versatile Pulsed Lasers Using 2d Layered Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

2D Layered Materials: Synthesis, Nonlinear Optical Properties, and Device Applications

Guo

Xiao

Wang

et al. 2019

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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“…For this, Bi-Er co-doped optical fibres were used as an active gain [60]. In this work Ahmad et al suggested the application of the dualpumping configuration at 980 and 1480 nm to achieve amplified spontaneous emission spectrum with a bandwidth of more than 100 nm, from 1520 to 1625 nm.…”

Section: Bismuth (Bi)-doped Fibre Lasersmentioning

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“…There are numerous reports in the literature [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67] on the use of SWNTs as mode lockers and Q-switches for ultrafast lasers in the broad wavelength band, which are summarised in Table 1. One of the main advantages of SWNT-based SAs, apart from ultrashort relaxation time and high nonlinearity, is the ease of their fabrication and implementation into the laser setup.…”

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Carbon nanotubes for ultrafast fibre lasers

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess both remarkable optical properties and high potential for integration in various photonic devices. We overview, here, recent progress in CNT applications in fibre optics putting particular emphasis on fibre lasers. We discuss fabrication and characterisation of different CNTs, development of CNTbased saturable absorbers (CNT-SA), their integration and operation in fibre laser cavities putting emphasis on stateof-the-art fibre lasers, mode locked using CNT-SA. We discuss new design concepts of high-performance ultrafast operation fibre lasers covering ytterbium (Yb), bismuth (Bi), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm) and holmium (Ho)-doped fibre lasers.

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“…Additionally, at 1560 nm, the saturation fluence of graphene is not much below the material damage threshold, which can lead to problems if the laser Q-switches at start up. Nevertheless, mode-locked fiber lasers have been demonstrated with CNTs [90,105,[126][127][128][129] as well as with graphene saturable absorbers [130][131][132]. A fully stabilized frequency comb system using CNTs deposited on a fiber tip has been reported [105], while only offset frequency stabilization has been demonstrated using a CNT embedded fiber taper [106].…”

Section: Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Saturable Absorber Lasersmentioning

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Optical Frequency Comb Generation based on Erbium Fiber Lasers

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Optical frequency combs have revolutionized optical frequency metrology and are being actively investigated in a number of applications outside of pure optical frequency metrology. For reasons of cost, robustness, performance, and flexibility, the erbium fiber laser frequency comb has emerged as the most commonly used frequency comb system and many different designs of erbium fiber frequency combs have been demonstrated. We review the different approaches taken in the design of erbium fiber frequency combs, including the major building blocks of the underlying mode-locked laser, amplifier, supercontinuum generation and actuators for stabilization of the frequency comb.

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Mode-locked L-band bismuth–erbium fiber laser using carbon nanotubes

Cited by 24 publications

References 28 publications

2D Layered Materials: Synthesis, Nonlinear Optical Properties, and Device Applications

2D Layered Materials: Synthesis, Nonlinear Optical Properties, and Device Applications

Carbon nanotubes for ultrafast fibre lasers

Optical Frequency Comb Generation based on Erbium Fiber Lasers

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