Optical properties and applications of metal nanomaterials in ultrafast photonics: A review

J Chao, G Wang, P Qiu, H Sun, Y Wang, X Duan… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Springer
Metal nanomaterials have emerged as compelling candidates for ultrafast photonics
applications, owing to their outstanding saturable absorption properties induced by surface …

Chitosan capped nickel oxide nanoparticles as a saturable absorber in a tunable passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber laser

H Ahmad, SA Reduan, N Yusoff - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nickel oxide (NiO) nanoparticles successfully prepared from a nickel (II) chloride
hexahydrate precursor are used to form a chitosan capped NiO nanoparticle thin film to …

MoTe2-PVA as saturable absorber for passively Q-switched thulium-doped fluoride and erbium-doped fiber laser

H Ahmad, NF Azmy, N Yusoff, SA Reduan, SN Aidit… - Optik, 2021 - Elsevier
Passively Q-switched fiber lasers in the S-and C-band region were demonstrated using
molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe 2) as the saturable absorber (SA). The MoTe 2 was prepared …

Magnetron sputtered Al-doped ZnO thin film as saturable absorber for passively Q-switched Er/Yb double clad fiber laser

P Prieto-Cortés, RI Álvarez-Tamayo… - Laser Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The passive Q-switched operation of a ring cavity Er/Yb-doped double clad fiber laser by
using an Al-doped ZnO (AZO) thin film as saturable absorber is experimentally …

Thermocavitation: a mechanism to pulse fiber lasers

R Zaca-Morán, C Amaxal-Cuatetl, P Zaca-Moran… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we present a novel mechanism for the generation of laser pulses based on the
phenomenon of thermocavitation. Thermocavitation bubbles were generated within a glass …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of the nonlinear optical properties of Zn and Ag nanoparticles using light at 1550 nm

A Guzmán-Barraza, JG Ortega-Mendoza… - Results in Optics, 2024 - Elsevier
Nonlinear optical properties of metallic and oxide metallic nanoparticles have been
extensively studied as saturable absorbers in fiber-optic lasers in the infrared region for the …

Self-assembled gold nanoparticles as saturable absorber for low-threshold all-solid-state pulsed 2 μm laser

X Zhang, X Liu, X Xu, S Zhao, T Li, L Guo, K Yang - Optical Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to overcome the shortcomings of un-uniformity of two-dimension (2D) material
based saturable absorbers (SAs) and improve the performance of consequently generated …

Generating micropatterns onto the core of an optical fiber end with nanoparticles using fiber modes

JG Ortega-Mendoza, P Soto-López… - Laser Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we report an experimental study to generate micropatterns of nanoparticles
using modes that propagate into optical fiber and the photodeposition technique. The …

Influence on the saturable absorption of the induced losses by photodeposition of zinc nanoparticles in an optical fiber

LC Gómez-Pavón, GJ Lozano-Perera… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this work, the influence of induced losses on the saturable absorption by zinc
nanoparticles photodeposited onto the core of an optical fiber end is reported. Samples with …

Novel zinc-doped carbon nitride (Zn: C3N4) modulated short-pulsed Er: YAP laser in the mid-infrared region

L Huang, J Gu, Z Wang, X Wu, J Liu - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional inorganic semiconductor, organic semiconductor can be flexibly
specified by hydrogen bonds, coordination bonds, covalent bonds or ionic bonds, and …