Recent advances in fibre lasers for nonlinear microscopy

C Xu, FW Wise - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Nonlinear microscopy techniques developed over the past two decades have provided
dramatic new capabilities for biological imaging. The initial demonstrations of nonlinear …

2D saturable absorbers for fibre lasers

RI Woodward, EJR Kelleher - Applied Sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are an emergent and promising platform for future
photonic and optoelectronic applications. Here, we review recent progress demonstrating …

Femtosecond Mamyshev oscillator with 10-MW-level peak power

W Liu, R Liao, J Zhao, J Cui, Y Song, C Wang, M Hu - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Ultrafast fiber lasers exhibit high broadband gain per pass, superior thermo-optical
properties, and excellent beam quality, making them very suitable for practical use. For …

The development and application of femtosecond laser systems

W Sibbett, AA Lagatsky, CTA Brown - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Some background as well as recent progress in the development of femtosecond lasers are
discussed together with a brief outline of a few representative emergent applications in …

Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

C Aguergaray, NGR Broderick, M Erkintalo… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report on a new design for a passively mode locked fibre laser employing all normal
dispersion polarisation maintaining fibres operating at 1 μm. The laser produces linearly …

Pulse shaping and evolution in normal-dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers

WH Renninger, A Chong… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber lasers mode locked with large normal group-velocity dispersion have recently
achieved femtosecond pulse durations with energies and peak powers at least an order of …

Bidirectional mode-locked all-normal dispersion fiber laser

B Li, J Xing, D Kwon, Y Xie, N Prakash, J Kim… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The bidirectional mode-locked oscillator is an emerging light source architecture suitable for
dual-comb applications. Therein, bidirectional mode-locked fiber lasers (MLFLs) are …

Dissipative soliton resonance in a passively mode-locked figure-eight fiber laser

SK Wang, QY Ning, AP Luo, ZB Lin, ZC Luo, WC Xu - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
The generation of mode-locked rectangular pulses operating in dissipative soliton
resonance (DSR) region is demonstrated in an erbium-doped figure-eight fiber laser with net …

Wide spectral and wavelength-tunable dissipative soliton fiber laser with topological insulator nano-sheets self-assembly films sandwiched by PMMA polymer

Q Wang, Y Chen, L Miao, G Jiang, S Chen, J Liu… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Topological insulators have been theoretically predicted as promising candidates for
broadband photonics devices due to its large bulk band gap states in association with the …

20 nJ 200 fs all-fiber highly chirped dissipative soliton oscillator

DS Kharenko, EV Podivilov, AA Apolonski, SA Babin - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
The dissipative solitons (DS) generated in fiber oscillators with mode-locking mechanism
based on nonlinear polarization evolution in a single-mode fiber exhibit stability and energy …