&lt;inline-formula&gt; &lt;tex-math notation="LaTeX"&gt;$Q$ &lt;/tex-math&gt;&lt;/inline-formula&gt;-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Based on Silver Nanoparticles as a Saturable Absorber

Guo, Hao; Feng, Ming; Song, Feng; Li, Haoyu; Ren, Aibing; Wei, Xukang; Li, Yi‐Gang; Xu, Xiaoxuan; Tian, Jianguo

doi:10.1109/lpt.2015.2487521

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“…This can be done chemically. In this case, the glass surface is dipped into a solution with pre-synthesized MeNPs for the formation of a self-assembled monolayer of MeNPs on the surface [145][146][147]. Using this approach, it is not only possible to deposit MeNPs on the outer surfaces, but also to form layers of selected MeNPs inside the channels of microstructured optical fibers [146].…”

Section: Fiber Fabrication Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nano-Structured Optical Fibers Made of Glass-Ceramics, and Phase Separated and Metallic Particle-Containing Glasses

Veber

Vermillac

et al. 2019

Fibers

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For years, scientists have been looking for different techniques to make glasses perfect: fully amorphous and ideally homogeneous. Meanwhile, recent advances in the development of particle-containing glasses (PCG), defined in this paper as glass-ceramics, glasses doped with metallic nanoparticles, and phase-separated glasses show that these "imperfect" glasses can result in better optical materials if particles of desired chemistry, size, and shape are present in the glass. It has been shown that PCGs can be used for the fabrication of nanostructured fibers-a novel class of media for fiber optics. These unique optical fibers are able to outperform their traditional glass counterparts in terms of available emission spectral range, quantum efficiency, non-linear properties, fabricated sensors sensitivity, and other parameters. Being rather special, nanostructured fibers require new, unconventional solutions on the materials used, fabrication, and characterization techniques, limiting the use of these novel materials. This work overviews practical aspects and progress in the fabrication and characterization methods of the particle-containing glasses with particular attention to nanostructured fibers made of these materials. A review of the recent achievements shows that current technologies allow producing high-optical quality PCG-fibers of different types, and the unique optical properties of these nanostructured fibers make them prospective for applications in lasers, optical communications, medicine, lighting, and other areas of science and industry.Made of glass, optical fibers inherited all positive and negative properties of this material. Glasses are easy and inexpensive to produce on any scale and in any shape, they can possess high chemical stability and mechanical strength, and have high transparency. However, they could hardly compete, for example, with crystalline materials in thermal conductivity, or rare-earth elements' absorption, emission cross-sections, and available transparency range. Recent advances in glass science showed that properties of this material can be significantly improved if some additional phases are formed or impregnated in the glass. In particular, advances have been achieved in the development of particle-containing glasses: glass-ceramic materials, glasses doped with metallic nanoparticles, and phase-separated glasses. To date, these particle-containing glasses have become quite common and actively used in case of the bulk materials, but are still rather new for fiber optics.The purpose of this review is to summarize recent advances in the fabrication of structured fibers made of particle-containing glasses, their potential benefits, their actual properties, and their potential applications. The review covers three types of particle-containing glasses (PCG): crystalline dielectric particles, i.e., glass-ceramics; metallic nanoparticles (MeNPs); and dielectric amorphous particles, i.e., phase-separated glasses.First, we consider properties of the PCG bulk materials, their potenti...

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Section: Fiber Fabrication Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nano-Structured Optical Fibers Made of Glass-Ceramics, and Phase Separated and Metallic Particle-Containing Glasses

Veber

Vermillac

et al. 2019

Fibers

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“…Soliton fiber lasers based on Er-doped gain fibers that generate shorter pulse duration down to the sub-ps level were reported later by the same group and other groups by further dispersion management and optimization of cavity design (Wang X. D. et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2016). Later, SAs based on other noble metal (such as silver) based plasmonic NPs were also employed for different fiber lasers in the NIR spectral region (Glubokov et al, 2014;Guo H. et al, 2016).…”

Section: Noble Metal Based Colloidal Plasmonic Nps For Ultrafast Lasersmentioning

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“…Mode-locked pulses generation was demonstrated later by Guo et al based on copper-deficient chalcogenide NPs (Guo et al, 2016a,b;Guo H. et al, 2016). The copper chalcogenide systems offer even wider tenability of carrier density by both controlling the stoichiometry and the alloying effect.…”

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Colloidal Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Ultrafast Optical Switching and Laser Pulse Generation

Liu

2018

Front. Mater.

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Light-matter interactions are greatly enhanced and spatially well-confined in plasmonic nanostructures in the spectral resonance range. In colloidal plasmonic nanoparticle (NP), this effect is manifested by the strong absorption caused by the collective oscillation of conduction electrons in NPs, known as the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The strong spectral resonance due to LSPR also contributes to the large enhancement in optical nonlinearity, such as nonlinear absorption and optical Kerr effect, and the ultrafast transient photo-bleaching in those materials making them ideal platforms for exploring optical switching behavior that is needed in all optical devices. Here, we review the recent advances in the use of colloidal processed noble metal, metalloid, chalcogenide and oxide plasmonic NPs for ultrafast optical switches to drive pulse laser generation in both solid state and fiber lasers. The broadband and ultrafast response of these plasmonic NPs offers a significant advantage in devices performance and allows the pulse generation from near infrared (NIR) to middle infrared (MIR) spectral range with pulse duration down to 100-femtosecond level. Compared with commercial products and other optical switches based on 2D materials, these plasmonic NPs are expected to provide a competitive and cost-efficient material solution to compact ultrafast pulse lasers and relevant devices.

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“…The outstanding properties of the metal nanoparticles have been promoting the interesting applications in the areas of optics, medicine, and spectroscopy [36][37][38][39][40][41]. It is worthy to note that metal nanoparticles have exhibited great potential in the application of ultrafast fiber lasers as SAs for Q-switched and mode-locked pulse generation [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. Up to now, most metal nanoparticles-based SAs researches focus on Au nanoparticles as SAs for achieving Q-switching or mode-locking, implemented in the major fiber lasers (i.e.…”

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Passively Q-switched Yb-doped all-fiber laser based on Ag nanoplates as saturable absorber

Wang

et al. 2020

Nanophotonics

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We report on a Q-switched Yb-doped all-fiber laser based on a solution-processed Ag nanoplates saturable absorber. Optical deposition procedure is implemented to transfer the Ag nanoplates onto the fiber core area through the thermal effect. The saturable absorber is sandwiched between two fiber connectors, providing simplicity, flexibility, and easy integration into the laser oscillator. The modulation depth and saturation incident fluence are measured to be ~5.8% and ~106.36 μJ/cm2 at 1-μm region, respectively. Self-started stable Q-switched operation is achieved for a threshold pump power of 180 mW. The repetition rates of the pulse trains range from 66.6 to 184.8 kHz when the pump power scales from 210 to 600 mW. The maximum average output power is 10.77 mW, corresponding to the single-pulse energy of 58.3 nJ and minimum pulse duration of ~1.01 μs. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that the Ag nanoplates saturable absorbers are utilized in the 1-μm Yb-doped Q-switched fiber laser.

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<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Based on Silver Nanoparticles as a Saturable Absorber

Cited by 65 publications

References 24 publications

Nano-Structured Optical Fibers Made of Glass-Ceramics, and Phase Separated and Metallic Particle-Containing Glasses

Nano-Structured Optical Fibers Made of Glass-Ceramics, and Phase Separated and Metallic Particle-Containing Glasses

Colloidal Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Ultrafast Optical Switching and Laser Pulse Generation

Passively Q-switched Yb-doped all-fiber laser based on Ag nanoplates as saturable absorber

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