Recent advances in supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers

T Sylvestre, E Genier, AN Ghosh, P Bowen, G Genty… - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The physics and applications of fiber-based supercontinuum (SC) sources have been a
subject of intense interest over the last decade, with significant impact on both basic science …

[HTML][HTML] Post-2000 nonlinear optical materials and measurements: data tables and best practices

N Vermeulen, D Espinosa, A Ball… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

[HTML][HTML] Semiconductor core fibres: materials science in a bottle

UJ Gibson, L Wei, J Ballato - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Novel core fibers have a wide range of applications in optics, as sources, detectors and
nonlinear response media. Optoelectronic, and even electronic device applications are now …

[HTML][HTML] Raman amplification at 2.2 μm in silicon core fibers with prospects for extended mid-infrared source generation

M Huang, S Sun, TS Saini, Q Fu, L Xu, D Wu… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Raman scattering provides a convenient mechanism to generate or amplify light at
wavelengths where gain is not otherwise available. When combined with recent …

[HTML][HTML] 2023 Astrophotonics Roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments

N Jovanovic, P Gatkine, N Anugu… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

[HTML][HTML] Short-wave IR ultrafast fiber laser systems: Current challenges and prospective applications

DC Kirsch, S Chen, R Sidharthan, Y Chen… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrashort pulse generation at the short-wave infrared (SWIR) wavelength ranges from 1.6 to
2.5 μ m and together with benefits of the all-fiber design has transformed lasers into an …

[HTML][HTML] Localised structuring of metal-semiconductor cores in silica clad fibres using laser-driven thermal gradients

S Song, F Laurell, B Meehan, TW Hawkins… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The molten core drawing method allows scalable fabrication of novel core fibres with
kilometre lengths. With metal and semiconducting components combined in a glass-clad …

Enhanced birefringence in conventional and hybrid anti-resonant hollow-core fibers

MS Habib, AI Adamu, C Markos… - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A hollow-core anti-resonant fiber (HC-ARF) design based on hybrid silica/silicon cladding is
proposed for single-polarization, single-mode and high birefringence. We show that by …

Enhanced CW Lasing and Q‐Switched Pulse Generation Enabled by Tm3+‐Doped Glass Ceramic Fibers

S Kang, T Qiao, X Huang, C Yang, X Liu… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fiber lasers, owing to the high beam quality and super robustness, are widely used in fields
from optical communications, fiber sensing, biomedicine to material processing. The use of …

[HTML][HTML] Review on optical nonlinearity of group-IV semiconducting materials for all-optical processing

CH Cheng, CS Fu, HY Wang, SY Set, S Yamashita… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Group-IV semiconductor compounds with intense optical nonlinearity have emerged as a
new branch of all-optical processing materials benefiting from the manufacturing …