1. Wavelength tunable soliton rains in a nanotube-mode locked Tm-doped fiber laser
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B. Fu, D. Popa, Z. Zhao, S. A. Hussain, E. Flahaut, T. Hasan, G. Soavi, A. C. Ferrari, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE), University of Cambridge (UNITED KINGDOM), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE), Beihang University (CHINA), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche et d'Ingénierie des Matériaux - CIRIMAT (Toulouse, France), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Beihang University (BUAA), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux (CIRIMAT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Popa, Daniel [0000-0002-5708-743X], Hasan, Tawfique [0000-0002-6250-7582], Ferrari, Andrea [0000-0003-0907-9993], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Nanotube ,Materials science ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Matériaux ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Physics::Optics ,Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) ,02 engineering and technology ,Carbon nanotube ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,[SPI.MAT]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Materials ,010309 optics ,law ,Fiber laser ,Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) ,0103 physical sciences ,cond-mat.mes-hall ,[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering ,Spectroscopy ,Génie des procédés ,Computer Science::Databases ,Double-walled carbon nanotube ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics ,business.industry ,Isolator ,Physics - Applied Physics ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Polarization (waves) ,Tunable Laser ,Wavelength ,Optoelectronics ,physics.optics ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,physics.app-ph ,Ultrashort pulse ,Optics (physics.optics) ,Physics - Optics ,Ultrafast spectroscopy - Abstract
We report soliton rains in a tunable Tm-doped fiber laser mode locked by carbon nanotubes. We also detect their second- and third-harmonics. We achieve a tunability of over 56 nm, from 1877 to 1933 nm, by introducing a polarization-maintaining isolator and two in-line polarization controllers. This makes our system promising as a tunable filter for ultrafast spectroscopy., We acknowledge funding from ERC Grant Hetero2D, EPSRC Grants Nos. EP/L016087/1, EP/K017144/1, EP/K01711X/1 and the China Scholarship Council.
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- 2018