The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent decades.The strong interest from industry for inexpensive,compact,and reliable ultrafast laser sources in the picosecond and femtos...The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent decades.The strong interest from industry for inexpensive,compact,and reliable ultrafast laser sources in the picosecond and femtosecond domains has driven this technology toward commercial products.Frequency metrology and biomedical applications would benefit from sub-200-femtosecond pulse durations with peak powers in the kilowatt range.The aim of this review is to briefly describe the market potential and give an overview of the current status of mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers.Particular focus is placed on the ongoing efforts to achieve shorter pulses with higher peak powers.展开更多
Stable Q-switched and mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers(EDFLs)are first demonstrated by using the novel layered palladium disulfide(PdS2),a new member of group 10 transition metal dichalcogenides(TMDs)-based satur...Stable Q-switched and mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers(EDFLs)are first demonstrated by using the novel layered palladium disulfide(PdS2),a new member of group 10 transition metal dichalcogenides(TMDs)-based saturable absorbers(SAs).Self-started Q-switched operation at 1567 nm was achieved with a threshold pump power of 50.6 mW.The modulation ranges of pulse duration and repetition rate were characterized as 12.6-4.5μs and 17.2-26.0 kHz,respectively.Meanwhile,a mode-locked EDFL was also obtained with a pump power threshold of 106.4 mW.The achieved pulse duration is 803 fs,corresponding to a center wavelength of 1565.8 nm and4.48 nm 3 dB bandwidth.To the best of our knowledge,the achieved pulse duration of the mode-locked EDFL in this work is the narrowest compared with all other group 10 TMD SA-based lasers.展开更多
We investigate optical and electrical behaviors of a graphene saturable absorber (SA) and mode-locking performance of a graphene-SA-based mode-locked Er fiber laser in gamma-ray radiation. When irradiated up to 4.8 kG...We investigate optical and electrical behaviors of a graphene saturable absorber (SA) and mode-locking performance of a graphene-SA-based mode-locked Er fiber laser in gamma-ray radiation. When irradiated up to 4.8 kGy at ~ 100 Gy/hr dose rate, the overall nonlinear transmittance in transverse electric mode was increased, while maintaining modulation depth to >10%. The corresponding polarization.dependent loss was reduced at a 1.2-dB/kGy rate. In the electrical properties, the charge carrier mobility was reduced, and the Dirac voltage shift was increased to positive under gamma-ray radiation. The radiation-induced optical and electrical changes turned out to be almost recovered after a few days. In addition, we confirmed that the graphene-SA-based laser showed stable CW mode-locking operation while the inserted graphene SA was irradiated for 2-kGy at a 45-Gy/hr dose rate, which corresponds to >40 years of operation in low Earth orbit satellites.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first evaluation of graphene SAs and graphene-SA-based mode-locked lasers in gamma-ray radiation, and the measured results confirm the high potential of graphene SAs and graphene-SA-based lasers in various outer-space environments as well as other radiation environments, including particle accelerators and radiationbased medical instruments.展开更多
Time domain ABCD matrix formalism is a useful model for analyzing the characteristics of actively modelocked fiber laser. Based on this model and given more consideration on the influences of optical fiber dispersion ...Time domain ABCD matrix formalism is a useful model for analyzing the characteristics of actively modelocked fiber laser. Based on this model and given more consideration on the influences of optical fiber dispersion and optical fiber nonlinearity, the laser characteristic of actively modelocked fiber laser is analyzed, and the comparision of the theoretical analysis results with experimental ones is given.展开更多
We present a 10-GHz hybrid actively and passively mode-locked fiber ring laser with a dispersion im-balanced nonlinear loop mirror (DI-NOLM), whose nonlinear switching characteristic can make the laser operate at addi...We present a 10-GHz hybrid actively and passively mode-locked fiber ring laser with a dispersion im-balanced nonlinear loop mirror (DI-NOLM), whose nonlinear switching characteristic can make the laser operate at additive pulse modelocking (APM) mode or additive pulse limiting (APL) mode. When the laser operated at APM, 5.45 ps of transform-limited pulse series were obtained. When the laser was biased at APL region, supermode noise was suppressed and the laser output was more stable.展开更多
基金The authors acknowledge support of the technology and cleanroom facility FIRST of ETH Zurich for advanced micro-and nanotechnologyThis work was financed by the Swiss Confederation Program Nano-Tera.ch,which was scientifically evaluated by the Swiss National Science Foundation(SNSF).
文摘The performance of ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers has rapidly advanced in recent decades.The strong interest from industry for inexpensive,compact,and reliable ultrafast laser sources in the picosecond and femtosecond domains has driven this technology toward commercial products.Frequency metrology and biomedical applications would benefit from sub-200-femtosecond pulse durations with peak powers in the kilowatt range.The aim of this review is to briefly describe the market potential and give an overview of the current status of mode-locked semiconductor disk lasers.Particular focus is placed on the ongoing efforts to achieve shorter pulses with higher peak powers.
基金Research Grants Council,University Grants Committee of Hong Kong,China(GRF 152109/16E Poly U B-Q52T)。
文摘Stable Q-switched and mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers(EDFLs)are first demonstrated by using the novel layered palladium disulfide(PdS2),a new member of group 10 transition metal dichalcogenides(TMDs)-based saturable absorbers(SAs).Self-started Q-switched operation at 1567 nm was achieved with a threshold pump power of 50.6 mW.The modulation ranges of pulse duration and repetition rate were characterized as 12.6-4.5μs and 17.2-26.0 kHz,respectively.Meanwhile,a mode-locked EDFL was also obtained with a pump power threshold of 106.4 mW.The achieved pulse duration is 803 fs,corresponding to a center wavelength of 1565.8 nm and4.48 nm 3 dB bandwidth.To the best of our knowledge,the achieved pulse duration of the mode-locked EDFL in this work is the narrowest compared with all other group 10 TMD SA-based lasers.
基金National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)(2016R1A2B2012281,2018R1A2B3001793)
文摘We investigate optical and electrical behaviors of a graphene saturable absorber (SA) and mode-locking performance of a graphene-SA-based mode-locked Er fiber laser in gamma-ray radiation. When irradiated up to 4.8 kGy at ~ 100 Gy/hr dose rate, the overall nonlinear transmittance in transverse electric mode was increased, while maintaining modulation depth to >10%. The corresponding polarization.dependent loss was reduced at a 1.2-dB/kGy rate. In the electrical properties, the charge carrier mobility was reduced, and the Dirac voltage shift was increased to positive under gamma-ray radiation. The radiation-induced optical and electrical changes turned out to be almost recovered after a few days. In addition, we confirmed that the graphene-SA-based laser showed stable CW mode-locking operation while the inserted graphene SA was irradiated for 2-kGy at a 45-Gy/hr dose rate, which corresponds to >40 years of operation in low Earth orbit satellites.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first evaluation of graphene SAs and graphene-SA-based mode-locked lasers in gamma-ray radiation, and the measured results confirm the high potential of graphene SAs and graphene-SA-based lasers in various outer-space environments as well as other radiation environments, including particle accelerators and radiationbased medical instruments.
文摘Time domain ABCD matrix formalism is a useful model for analyzing the characteristics of actively modelocked fiber laser. Based on this model and given more consideration on the influences of optical fiber dispersion and optical fiber nonlinearity, the laser characteristic of actively modelocked fiber laser is analyzed, and the comparision of the theoretical analysis results with experimental ones is given.
文摘We present a 10-GHz hybrid actively and passively mode-locked fiber ring laser with a dispersion im-balanced nonlinear loop mirror (DI-NOLM), whose nonlinear switching characteristic can make the laser operate at additive pulse modelocking (APM) mode or additive pulse limiting (APL) mode. When the laser operated at APM, 5.45 ps of transform-limited pulse series were obtained. When the laser was biased at APL region, supermode noise was suppressed and the laser output was more stable.
