Optical waveguides in crystalline dielectric materials produced by femtosecond‐laser micromachining

F Chen, JRV de Aldana - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond‐laser micromachining (also known as inscription or writing) has been
developed as one of the most efficient techniques for direct three‐dimensional …

Generation, optimization, and application of ultrashort femtosecond pulse in mode-locked fiber lasers

Y Han, Y Guo, B Gao, C Ma, R Zhang… - Progress in Quantum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ultrafast femtosecond mode-locked fiber laser plays an indispensable role in medical
imaging, space ranging, ophthalmology, terahertz spectroscopy, material micromachining …

Low loss depressed cladding waveguide inscribed in YAG: Nd single crystal by femtosecond laser pulses

A Okhrimchuk, V Mezentsev, A Shestakov… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A depressed cladding waveguide with record low loss of 0.12 dB/cm is inscribed in YAG: Nd
(0.3 at.%) crystal by femtosecond laser pulses with an elliptical beam waist. The waveguide …

Highly efficient Yb: YAG channel waveguide laser written with a femtosecond-laser

J Siebenmorgen, T Calmano, K Petermann… - Optics Express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Using a femtosecond Ti: Sapphire laser, micro-tracks of material damage were written into
Yb: YAG crystals. Waveguiding was achieved in a channel between pairs of tracks with …

72-fs Er-doped Mamyshev oscillator

JC Zheng, S Yang, ZW Zhu, KY Lau… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrated an all-fiber Er-doped Mamyshev oscillator with short pulse duration and
high peak power. Through the dispersion management technique and accumulation of …

Q‐switched all‐fiber lasers with saturable absorbers

AS Kurkov - Laser Physics Letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this brief review we consider the relatively new design of the pulsed fiber lasers, namely
lasers with the fiber saturable absorber (FSA). Main advantage of this design consists in a …

Mid-infrared waveguide lasers in rare-earth-doped YAG

Y Ren, G Brown, A Ródenas, S Beecher, F Chen… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report near-infrared (IR) to mid-IR (up to 3.4 μm wavelength) multimode waveguiding in
deep buried channel waveguides fabricated inside rare-earth ion-doped ceramic YAG for …

Femtosecond Laser Written Depressed-Cladding Waveguide 2 × 2, 1 × 2 and 3 × 3 Directional Couplers in Tm3+:YAG Crystal

N Skryabin, A Kalinkin, I Dyakonov, S Kulik - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ion-doped crystal-based compact devices capable of beam splitting and coupling are
enthralling for a broad range of classical and quantum integrated photonics applications. In …

Femtosecond laser-induced optical waveguides in crystalline garnets: Fabrication and application

Y Shen, Y Jia, F Chen - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Femtosecond laser direct writing (FLW) is recognized as a powerful tool for generating
optical waveguides for complex photonic integrated circuits in various transparent materials …

Recent research progress of Mamyshev oscillator for high energy and ultrashort pulse generation

JC Zheng, S Yang, KY Lau, ZW Zhu, L Li - Optical Fiber Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The potential applications of Mamyshev oscillator in the generation of high-energy ultrashort
pulses have aroused extensive research interest. This review focuses on the latest research …