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Nanotube and graphene saturable absorbers for fibre lasers
Amos Martinez,Zhipei Sun +1 more
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Nanotubes and graphene have emerged as promising materials for use in ultrafast fiber lasers as discussed by the authors, and their unique electrical and optical properties enable them to be used as saturable absorbers that have fast responses and broadband operation and can be easily integrated in fibre lasers.Abstract:
Nanotubes and graphene have emerged as promising materials for use in ultrafast fibre lasers. Their unique electrical and optical properties enable them to be used as saturable absorbers that have fast responses and broadband operation and that can be easily integrated in fibre lasers.read more
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Optical modulators with 2D layered materials
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Nonlinear Optics with 2D Layered Materials.
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Graphene and its sensor-based applications: A review
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2D Materials for Optical Modulation: Challenges and Opportunities.
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Microfiber-based few-layer black phosphorus saturable absorber for ultra-fast fiber laser
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TL;DR: The results not only demonstrate that black phosphorus might be another promising SA material for ultrafast photonics, but also provide a practical solution to solve the optical damage problem of black phosphorus by assembling with waveguide structures such as microfiber.
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Graphene photonics and optoelectronics
TL;DR: Graphene has high mobility and optical transparency, in addition to flexibility, robustness and environmental stability as discussed by the authors, and its true potential lies in photonics and optoelectronics, where the combination of its unique optical and electronic properties can be fully exploited, even in the absence of a bandgap, and the linear dispersion of the Dirac electrons enables ultrawideband tunability.
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Atomic‐Layer Graphene as a Saturable Absorber for Ultrafast Pulsed Lasers
Qiaoliang Bao,Han Zhang,Yu Wang,Zhenhua Ni,Yongli Yan,Zexiang Shen,Kian Ping Loh,Dingyuan Tang +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of atomic layer graphene as saturable absorber in a mode-locked fiber laser for the generation of ultrashort soliton pulses (756 fs) at the telecommunication band is demonstrated.
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Atomic layer graphene as saturable absorber for ultrafast pulsed lasers
Qiaoliang Bao,Han Zhang,Yu Wang,Zhenhua Ni,Yongli Yan,Zexiang Shen,Kian Ping Loh,Dingyuan Tang +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the use of atomic layer graphene as saturable absorber in a mode-locked fiber laser for the generation of ultrashort soliton pulses (756 fs) at the telecommunication band.
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Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers
TL;DR: Semiconductor lasers for optical pumping and fast optical saturable absorbers, based on either semiconductor devices or the optical nonlinear Kerr effect, have dramatically improved these lasers and opened up new frontiers for applications with extremely short temporal resolution, extremely high peak optical intensities and extremely fast pulse repetition rates.
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Graphene Mode-Locked Ultrafast Laser
Zhipei Sun,Tawfique Hasan,Felice Torrisi,Daniel Popa,G. Privitera,Fengqiu Wang,Francesco Bonaccorso,Denis M. Basko,Andrea C. Ferrari +8 more
TL;DR: The optoelectronic properties of graphene are exploited to realize an ultrafast laser and pave the way to graphene-based photonics.