Recent advance of emerging low-dimensional materials for vector soliton generation in fiber lasers

Y Qi, S Yang, J Wang, L Li, Z Bai, Y Wang, Z Lv - Materials Today Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultrafast fiber lasers have significant applications in laser communications, ultra-precision
manufacturing, biomedical diagnostics, and so on. Among all the types of ultrashort pulses …

Graphene saturable absorbers applications in fiber lasers

X Peng, Y Yan - Journal of the European Optical Society …, 2021 - jeos.edpsciences.org
Two-dimensional materials are widely used in a variety of fields, such as medical treatment,
industrial preparation, machining, etc. In this review, we have made a detailed description of …

A 2.95 GHz, femtosecond passive harmonic mode-locked fiber laser based on evanescent field interaction with topological insulator film

P Yan, R Lin, S Ruan, A Liu, H Chen - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
By utilizing the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method, we fabricated a kind of microfiber-
based topological insulator (TI) saturable absorber (SA) which has inherent merits of …

Harmonically mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on a Sb2Te3 topological insulator saturable absorber

J Sotor, G Sobon, W Macherzynski… - Laser Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In this letter we present for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, a harmonically mode-
locked Er-doped fiber laser with antimony telluride (Sb 2 Te 3) topological insulator material …

Emerging 2D Materials with Nonparabolic Bands for Ultrafast Photonics

G Liu, Z Cui, F Zhang, Y Zeng, W Chen, Y Liu… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, 2D materials have been widely used in optical and photonic applications
such as mode lockers, optical switches, polarizers, and optical modulators. As is known …

Graphene-based passively Q-switched 2 μm thulium-doped fiber laser

J Liu, J Xu, P Wang - Optics Communications, 2012 - Elsevier
We demonstrated stable pulses generation at 2μm in a passively Q-switched thulium-doped
fiber laser using a few layer graphene thin film. The maximum output power was 4.5 mW and …

Passive synchronization of erbium and thulium doped fiber mode-locked lasers enhanced by common graphene saturable absorber

J Sotor, G Sobon, J Tarka, I Pasternak, A Krajewska… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
In this work we present for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, a passively
synchronized thulium (Tm) and erbium (Er) doped fiber laser mode-locked by a common …

Mode-locking in Er-doped fiber laser with reduced graphene oxide on a side-polished fiber as saturable absorber

H Ahmad, S Soltani, K Thambiratnam, M Yasin… - Optical Fiber …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, the generation of highly stable mode-locked pulses from a side-polished fiber
(SPF) embedded with graphene oxide (rGO) nanoparticles (NPs) is proposed and …

Linearly polarized, Q-switched Er-doped fiber laser based on reduced graphene oxide saturable absorber

G Sobon, J Sotor, J Jagiello, R Kozinski… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate generation of linearly polarized pulses from a passively Q-switched Erbium-
doped fiber laser. The cavity was designed using only polarization maintaining fibers and …

Novel nanomaterials based saturable absorbers for passive mode locked fiber laser at 1.5 μm

R Zhu, Y Qi, J Meng - Nanotechnology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Compared with continuous wave lasers, ultrafast lasers have the advantages of ultra-short
pulse width and ultra-high peak power, and have significant applications in optical …