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Thermally controlled comb generation and soliton modelocking in microresonators Open
We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of thermally controlled soliton mode-locked frequency comb generation in microresonators. By controlling the electric current through heaters integrated with silicon nitride …
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Frontiers of Mid-IR Lasers Based on Transition Metal Doped Chalcogenides Open
Enabling broad tunability, high peak and average power, ultrashort pulse duration, and all known modes of laser operation-transition-metal (TM)-doped II-VI chalcogenides are the materials of choice for direct lasing in the mid-IR. The host…
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Sub-200 fs soliton mode-locked fiber laser based on bismuthene saturable absorber Open
Few-layer bismuthene is an emerging two-dimensional material in the fields of physics, chemistry, and material science. However, its nonlinear optical property and the related photonics device have been seldom studied so far. Here, we demo…
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Breathing dissipative solitons in mode-locked fiber lasers Open
Oscillating dissipative solitons and their bound states are captured in ultrafast lasers using real-time measurement techniques.
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10.4 kW coherently combined ultrafast fiber laser Open
An ultrafast laser delivering 10.4 kW average output power based on a coherent combination of 12 step-index fiber amplifiers is presented. The system emits close-to-transform-limited 254 fs pulses at an 80 MHz repetition rate, and has a hi…
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All polarization-maintaining fiber laser architecture for robust femtosecond pulse generation Open
We report on a novel architecture for robust mode-locked femtosecond fiber lasers using a nonlinear optical loop mirror with all polarization-maintaining fibers. Due to a nonreciprocal phase shift, the loop mirror can be operated in a comp…
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All polarization-maintaining Er fiber-based optical frequency combs with nonlinear amplifying loop mirror Open
A fully stabilized all polarization-maintaining Er frequency comb with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror with below 0.2 rad carrier-envelope-offset frequency phase noise is demonstrated. The integrated timing jitter is measured as 40 atto…
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Turing patterns in a fiber laser with a nested microresonator: Robust and controllable microcomb generation Open
Microcombs based on Turing patterns have been extensively studied in configurations that can be modeled by the Lugiato-Lefever equation. Typically, such schemes are implemented experimentally by resonant coupling of a continuous wave laser…
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The laser of the future: reality and expectations about the new thulium fiber laser—a systematic review Open
The Holmium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Ho:YAG) laser has been the gold-standard for laser lithotripsy over the last 20 years. However, recent reports about a new prototype thulium fiber laser (TFL) lithotripter have revealed impressive level…
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Tungsten disulfide saturable absorbers for 67 fs mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers Open
In this paper, we demonstrate 67 fs pulse emitting with tungsten disulfide (WS2) in mode-locked erbium-doped fiber (EDF) lasers. Using the pulsed laser deposition method, WS2 is deposited on the surface of the tapered fiber to form the eva…
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Review of mid-infrared mode-locked laser sources in the 2.0 <i>μ</i>m–3.5 <i>μ</i>m spectral region Open
Ultrafast laser sources operating in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, which contains the characteristic fingerprint spectra of many important molecules and transparent windows of atmosphere, are of significant importance in a variety of a…
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Megawatt peak power from a Mamyshev oscillator Open
We demonstrate a fiber source with the best performance from an ultrafast fiber oscillator to date. The ring-cavity Mamyshev oscillator produces ~50-nJ and ~40-fs pulses. The peak power is an order of magnitude higher than that of previous…
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Vector soliton fiber laser passively mode locked by few layer black phosphorus-based optical saturable absorber Open
We report on the optical saturable absorption of few-layer black phosphorus nanoflakes and demonstrate its application for the generation of vector solitons in an erbium-doped fiber laser. By incorporating the black phosphorus nanoflakes-b…
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Manipulation of Group-Velocity-Locked Vector Solitons From Fiber Lasers Open
Manipulation of group-velocity-locked vector solitons (GVLVSs) is numerically proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A pseudo-high-order GVLVS could be generated from a fundamental GVLVS with the help of a polarization-resolved system. …
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Mid infrared gas spectroscopy using efficient fiber laser driven photonic chip-based supercontinuum Open
Directly accessing the middle infrared, the molecular functional group spectral region, via supercontinuum generation processes based on turn-key fiber lasers offers the undeniable advantage of simplicity and robustness. Recently, the asse…
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Single mode 43 kW output power from a diode-pumped Yb-doped fiber amplifier Open
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Several new directions for ultrafast fiber lasers [Invited] Open
Ultrafast fiber lasers have the potential to make applications of ultrashort pulses widespread - techniques not only for scientists, but also for doctors, manufacturing engineers, and more. Today, this potential is only realized in refract…
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Toward all-fiber supercontinuum spanning the mid-infrared Open
Broadband laser light sources in the mid-infrared region attract enormous interest due to the plethora of applications they are enabling, including multispecies trace gas detection, free-space communications, and infrared countermeasures. …
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Nonlinear optics in carbon nanotube, graphene, and related 2D materials Open
One- and two-dimensional forms of carbon, carbon nanotube, and graphene, and related 2D materials, have attracted great attention of researchers in many fields for their interesting and useful electrical, optical, chemical, and mechanical …
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Room-temperature fiber laser at 392 μm Open
Rare-earth-doped fiber lasers are promising contenders in the development of spectroscopy, free-space communications, and countermeasure applications in the 3–5 μm spectral region. However, given the limited transparency of the commonly us…
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Materials for optical fiber lasers: A review Open
Over the past two decades, fiber laser technologies have matured to such an extent that they have captured a large portion of the commercial laser marketplace. Yet, there still is a seemingly unquenchable thirst for ever greater optical po…
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Mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on PbS/CdS core/shell quantum dots as saturable absorber Open
Previously, PbS/CdS core/shell quantum dots with excellent optical properties have been widely used as light-harvesting materials in solar cell and biomarkers in bio-medicine. However, the nonlinear absorption characteristics of PbS/CdS co…
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Femtosecond Mamyshev oscillator with 10-MW-level peak power Open
Ultrafast fiber lasers exhibit high broadband gain per pass, superior thermo-optical properties, and excellent beam quality, making them very suitable for practical use. For simplicity and efficiency, advanced mode-locked oscillator design…
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MXene-based saturable absorber for femtosecond mode-locked fiber lasers Open
We report simple and compact all-fiber erbium-doped soliton and dispersion-managed soliton femtosecond lasers mode-locked by the MXene Ti3C2Tx. A saturable absorber device fabricated by optical deposition of Ti3C2Tx onto a microfiber exhib…
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Revealing the behavior of soliton buildup in a mode-locked laser Open
Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations of nonlinear dynamics in mode-locked lasers. However, the s…
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Ultrafast thulium fiber laser system emitting more than 1 kW of average power Open
In this Letter, we report on the generation of 1060 W average power from an ultrafast thulium-doped fiber chirped pulse amplification system. After compression, the pulse energy of 13.2 μJ with a pulse duration of 265 fs at an 80 MHz pulse…
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Theory of graphene saturable absorption Open
Saturable absorption is a non-perturbative nonlinear optical phenomenon that\nplays a pivotal role in the generation of ultrafast light pulses. Here we show\nthat this effect emerges in graphene at unprecedentedly low light intensities,\nt…
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Versatile and widely tunable mid-infrared erbium doped ZBLAN fiber laser Open
We report on a long wavelength emitting rare earth doped fiber laser with the emission centered at 3.5 μm and tunable across 450 nm. The longest wavelength emission was 3.78 μm which is the longest emission from a fiber laser operating at …
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Intelligent programmable mode-locked fiber laser with a human-like algorithm Open
Nonlinear polarization evolution-based passively mode-locked fiber lasers with ultrafast and high peak power pulses are a powerful tool for engineering applications and scientific research. However, their sensitivity to polarization limits…
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Cavity-based mid-IR fiber gas laser pumped by a diode laser Open
Mid-infrared (IR) lasers are currently an area of rapid development, with several competing technologies. In traditional gas lasers, the effective interaction length is limited and the system as a whole is bulky and inflexible, limiting th…