Novel nanomaterial-based saturable absorbers for ultrashort-pulsed mid-infrared waveguide chip lasers

A. Fuerbach; X. Jiang; S. Gross; H. Zhang; Z. Guo; F. Rotermund; D. Yeom; M. J. Withford

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550710

Novel nanomaterial-based saturable absorbers for ultrashort-pulsed mid-infrared waveguide chip lasers

A. Fuerbach, X. Jiang, S. Gross, H. Zhang, Z. Guo, F. Rotermund, D. Yeom, M. J. Withford

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Abstract

Mode-locked integrated mid-IR waveguide chip lasers with ultra-short pulse duration and high peak power are of great interest for a large range of applications like trace-gas spectroscopy and early-cancer detection. As those lasers are automatically embedded within a small block of doped glass, they are inherently robust and immune to environmental fluctuations. In this paper we investigate the suitability of various novel nanomaterials for the realisation of saturable absorbers for passive mode locking of femtosecond laser-written mid-infrared waveguide lasers. We compare and characterise saturable absorbers based on carbon nanotubes, graphene, topological insulators, transition metal dichalcogenides as well as black phosphorus and analyse their performance in a thulium-doped waveguide laser operating around 2 micron.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
Volume	2016-August
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509014675
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550710
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2016
Event	18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016 - Trento, Italy Duration: 10 Jul 2016 → 14 Jul 2016

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Other	18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Trento
Period	10/07/16 → 14/07/16

Keywords

femtosecond laser direct-write technique
passive mode locking
saturable absorbers
waveguide lasers

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Fuerbach, A., Jiang, X., Gross, S., Zhang, H., Guo, Z., Rotermund, F., Yeom, D., & Withford, M. J. (2016). Novel nanomaterial-based saturable absorbers for ultrashort-pulsed mid-infrared waveguide chip lasers. In 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2016 (Vol. 2016-August, pp. 1-3). Article 7550710 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550710

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Novel nanomaterial-based saturable absorbers for ultrashort-pulsed mid-infrared waveguide chip lasers. / Fuerbach, A.; Jiang, X.; Gross, S. et al.
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