Carbon nanotubes for ultrafast fibre lasers

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess both remarkable optical properties and high potential for integration in various photonic devices. We overview, here, recent progress in CNT applications in fibre optics putting particular emphasis on fibre lasers. We discuss fabrication and characterisation of different CNTs, development of CNT-based saturable absorbers (CNT-SA), their integration and operation in fibre laser cavities putting emphasis on state-of-the-art fibre lasers, mode locked using CNT-SA. We discuss new design concepts of high-performance ultrafast operation fibre lasers covering ytterbium (Yb), bismuth (Bi), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm) and holmium (Ho)-doped fibre lasers.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2015-0156
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
Aston University (General)
Additional Information: ©2016, Maria Chernysheva et al., published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. Funding: Marie-Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme “TelaSens” project, Research Executive Agency Grant No. 269271, Programme: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES and European Research Council through the FP7-IDEAS-ERC grant ULTRALASER; Grant of Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (agreement no. 14.B25.31.0003); Young Eastern Scholar program (QD2015027) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, and Human Capacity Development Program of Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq-Kurdistan Region.
Uncontrolled Keywords: carbon nanotubes,nanostructures,sensing,saturable absorber,fibre laser,Biotechnology,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Publication ISSN: 2192-8614
Last Modified: 29 Oct 2024 17:02
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2016 12:05
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PURE Output Type: Review article
Published Date: 2017-01-01
Published Online Date: 2016-06-11
Accepted Date: 2016-03-30
Submitted Date: 2015-12-20
Authors: Chernysheva, Maria
Rozhin, Aleksey (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-2271-8227)
Fedotov, Yuri
Mou, Chengbo
Arif, Raz
Kobtsev, Sergey M.
Dianov, Evgeny M.
Turitsyn, Sergei (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-0101-3834)

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