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 …

Coherent Raman scattering microscopy in biology and medicine

C Zhang, D Zhang, JX Cheng - Annual review of biomedical …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Advancements in coherent Raman scattering (CRS) microscopy have enabled label-free
visualization and analysis of functional, endogenous biomolecules in living systems. When …

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 …

Single-mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers

U Teğin, B Rahmani, E Kakkava, D Psaltis… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The performance of fiber mode-locked lasers is limited due to the high nonlinearity induced
by the spatial confinement of the single-mode fiber core. To massively increase the pulse …

All-fiber all-normal-dispersion femtosecond laser with a nonlinear multimodal interference-based saturable absorber

U Teğin, B Ortaç - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we demonstrate, to the best of our knowledge, the first all-fiber all-normal-
dispersion ytterbium-doped oscillator with a nonlinear multimodal interference-based …

Solitary waves in ultrafast fiber lasers: From solitons to dissipative solitons

P Grelu - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of the connections between ultrafast laser dynamics and solitary waves
concepts is presented, with an attempt to emphasize on important research milestones and …

Toward millijoule-level high-power ultrafast thin-disk oscillators

CJ Saraceno, F Emaury, C Schriber… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SESAM modelocked thin-disk lasers have recently reached new frontiers and remain the
leading technology in terms of average power and pulse energy, setting new performance …

Evolution of dissipative solitons in a fiber laser oscillator in the presence of strong Raman scattering

AE Bednyakova, SA Babin, DS Kharenko… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
As recently revealed, chirped dissipative solitons (DSs) generated in a long cavity fiber laser
are subject to action of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Here we present theoretical and …

All-fiber spatiotemporally mode-locked laser with multimode fiber-based filtering

U Teğin, B Rahmani, E Kakkava, D Psaltis, C Moser - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the first all-fiber multimode spatiotemporally mode-locked laser. The
oscillator generates dissipative soliton pulses at 1036 nm with 12 mW average power, 6.24 …

Single-polarization large-mode-area fiber laser mode-locked with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

W Liu, H Shi, J Cui, C Xie, Y Song, C Wang, M Hu - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The generation of high-power ultrashort pulses from a passively mode-locked fiber laser is
reported based on the combination of a single-polarization large-mode-area (LMA) photonic …