Bidirectional Red-Light Passively <i>Q</i>-Switched All-Fiber Ring Lasers With Carbon Nanotube Saturable Absorber

Li, Wensong; Zhu, Chunhui; Rong, Xiaofeng; Wu, Jiaji; Xu, Huiying; Wang, Frank; Luo, Zhengqian; Caï, Zhiping

doi:10.1109/jlt.2017.2781702

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“…In 2016, Xu et al reported that nonlinear absorption wavelength of SWCNT could extend into the visible region [114]. Following this work, Li et al successfully demonstrated red light Q-switched all-fiber Pr:ZBLAN fiber laser using an SWCNT/PVA as the SA, based on the linear fiber cavity and bidirectional ring cavity configurations, and pumping with 445 nm laser diode, they achieved the output at wavelength of 716 [70], 635.4 nm (Figure 3 (A)) [52], respectively. Recently, spectral region of CNT-SA based passively Q-switched fiber lasers has been extended to mid-infrared.…”

Section: Cnt-based Q-switched Fiber Lasermentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Due to the excellent properties for saturation absorption, CNT-SA has been widely used in Q-switched and modelocked lasers, including the solid-state lasers [45][46][47][48][49], semiconductor lasers [50], waveguide lasers [51], and fiber lasers. The excellent properties of CNT-SAs enable ultrastable, ultrashort, and compact fiber laser system working from the visible to the mid-infrared spectral region [52][53][54][55], with functionalized operations like gigahertz repetition rate [56][57][58], multi-wavelength output [36,59,60], pulse duration, and spectral bandwidth tunability [37,[61][62][63][64][65]. Various operation regimes, including Q-switching [52,53,[66][67][68][69][70][71], Q-switched mode-locking [72], and mode-locking [9,37,50,[73][74][75][76], were reported.…”

Section: Cnt-based Ultrafast Fiber Lasermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The excellent properties of CNT-SAs enable ultrastable, ultrashort, and compact fiber laser system working from the visible to the mid-infrared spectral region [52][53][54][55], with functionalized operations like gigahertz repetition rate [56][57][58], multi-wavelength output [36,59,60], pulse duration, and spectral bandwidth tunability [37,[61][62][63][64][65]. Various operation regimes, including Q-switching [52,53,[66][67][68][69][70][71], Q-switched mode-locking [72], and mode-locking [9,37,50,[73][74][75][76], were reported. Pulse evolution and interaction dynamics, including various soliton types [9,37,55,[77][78][79], soliton molecule [74,80,81], harmonic mode-locking [58,75,82], vector solitons [83,84], dark soliton…”

Section: Cnt-based Ultrafast Fiber Lasermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…CNT-SA based Q-switched fiber laser covering the spectral region from visible to mid-infrared. (A) 635 nm based on Pr:ZBLAN fiber, Li et al[52]. © IEEE 2018; (B) ∼1060 nm based on Yb-doped fiber, Li et al[67].…”

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Dynamics of carbon nanotube-based mode-locking fiber lasers

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AbstractCarbon nanotube (CNT) can work as excellent saturable absorber (SA) due to its advantages of fast recovery, low saturation intensity, polarization insensitivity, deep modulation depth, broad operation bandwidth, outstanding environmental stability, and affordable fabrication. Its successful application as SA has promoted the development of scientific research and practical application of mode-locked fiber lasers. Besides, mode-locked fiber laser constitutes an ideal platform for investigating soliton dynamics which exhibit profound nonlinear optical dynamics and excitation ubiquitous in many fields. Up to now, a variety of soliton dynamics have been observed. Among these researches, CNT-SA is a key component that suppresses the environmental perturbation and optimizes the laser system to reveal the true highly stochastic and non-repetitive unstable phenomena of the initial self-starting lasing process. This review is intended to provide an up-to-date introduction to the development of CNT-SA based ultrafast fiber lasers, with emphasis on recent progress in real-time buildup dynamics of solitons in CNT-SA mode-locked fiber lasers. It is anticipated that study of dynamics of solitons can not only further reveal the physical nature of solitons, but also optimize the performance of ultrafast fiber lasers and eventually expand their applications in different fields.

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Section: Cnt-based Ultrafast Fiber Lasermentioning

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Dynamics of carbon nanotube-based mode-locking fiber lasers

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“…By adjusting the diameter, the bandgap of SWCNTs can be shifted to the visible region. Therefore, SWCNTs can be made to have strong nonlinear saturable absorption at visible wavelengths and used as SAs for visible pulse generation [165,166].…”

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Visible-wavelength pulsed lasers with low-dimensional saturable absorbers

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Abstract The recent renaissance in pulsed lasers operating in the visible spectral region has been driven by their significant applications in a wide range of fields such as display technology, medicine, microscopy, material processing, and scientific research. Low-dimensional nanomaterials as saturable absorbers are exploited to create strong nonlinear saturable absorption for pulse generation at visible wavelengths due to their absorption peaks located in visible spectral region. Here we provide a detailed overview of visible-wavelength pulsed lasers based on low-dimensional nanomaterials, covering the optical properties and various integration strategies of these nanomaterials saturable absorbers, and their performance from solid-state as well as fiber pulsed lasers in the visible spectral range. This emerging application domain will undoubtedly lead to the rapid development of visible pulsed lasers.

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Laser switching characteristics of enriched (7,5) single-walled carbon nanotubes at 640 nm

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Bidirectional Red-Light Passively Q-Switched All-Fiber Ring Lasers With Carbon Nanotube Saturable Absorber

Cited by 23 publications

References 74 publications

Dynamics of carbon nanotube-based mode-locking fiber lasers

Dynamics of carbon nanotube-based mode-locking fiber lasers

Visible-wavelength pulsed lasers with low-dimensional saturable absorbers

Laser switching characteristics of enriched (7,5) single-walled carbon nanotubes at 640 nm

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