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Spectrally Flat Supercontinuum Generation in a ZBLAN Fiber Pumped by Erbium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
摘要： We have experimentally demonstrated the flat supercontinuum (SC) generation using a 10-m-long ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (ZBLAN) fluoride fiber pumped by an erbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser incorporating carbon-nanotube-based saturable absorbers. In order to improve the spectral flatness of SC, the standardized single-mode fiber with different lengths is connected to the output of the mode-locked fiber laser before the pulse amplification. The generated SC with ZBLAN fiber exhibits the best spectral flatness with fluctuation less than 1.29 dB over the wavelength of 1571.8 nm ? 1803.1 nm, showing potential applications in optical sensing.
关键词： ZBLAN,mode-locked fiber laser,Flat supercontinuum
更新于2025-11-28 14:23:57
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Suppression of crystallization in ZBLAN glass by rapid heating and cooling processing
摘要： ZBLAN glass is a heavy metal fluoride glass that tends to undergo heavy devitrification, resulting in a crystalline material. It has many applications, including its use as an optical waveguide for fibre optic technology. However, when the glass is processed with traditional casting techniques, crystallites form readily that act as scattering centres, which results in large attenuation losses. In this study, it has been experimentally demonstrated that processing ZBLAN rapidly with a heating rate of 25,000 K/min and cooling rate of 4,000 K/min yields test samples that are fully amorphous and retain a disordered molecular arrangement characteristic of its molten state. This novel method was developed using a specifically designed equipment named a Rapid Electro-thermal Processing Device, or “REPD”. The REPD applies ohmic heating and thermal conduction to a heat sink to rapidly process the ZBLAN material. The absence of crystallites in the rapidly processed ZBLAN test samples were verified using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. Applying a theoretical algorithm, the critical cooling rate for yielding fully amorphous ZBLAN glass was determined to be 1081 K/min for a sample volume of 9.4 x 10-8 m3.
关键词： rapid cooling,microscopy,crystallization,ohmic heating,cooling rate,Joule heating,rapid heating,diffraction experiment,ZBLAN
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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2a??10???μm Mida??Infrared Fibera??Based Supercontinuum Laser Source: Experiment and Simulation
摘要： Mid-infrared supercontinuum (mid-IR SC) sources in the 2–20 μm molecular fingerprint region are in high demand for a wide range of applications including optical coherence tomography, remote sensing, molecular spectroscopy, and hyperspectral imaging. Herein, mid-IR SC generation is investigated in a cascaded silica-ZBLAN-chalcogenide fiber system directly pumped with a commercially available pulsed fiber laser operating in the telecommunications window at 1.55 μm. This fiber-based system is shown to generate a flat broadband mid-IR SC covering the entire range from 2 to 10 μm with several tens of mW of output power. This technique paves the way for low cost, practical, and robust broadband SC sources in the mid-IR without the requirement of mid-infrared pump sources or Thulium-doped fiber amplifiers. A fully realistic numerical model used to simulate the nonlinear pulse propagation through the cascaded fiber system is also described and the numerical results are used to discuss the physical processes underlying the spectral broadening in the cascaded system. Finally, recommendations are provided for optimizing the current cascaded system based on the simulation results.
关键词： soft-glass fibers,nonlinear optics and solitons,supercontinuum generation,chalcogenide fibers,fiber lasers,ZBLAN fibers
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Multi-octave spanning, Watt-level ultrafast mid-infrared source
摘要： We present a source of brilliant mid-infrared radiation, seamlessly covering the wavelength range between 1.33 and 18 μm (7500–555 cm?1) with three channels, employing broadband nonlinear conversion processes driven by the output of a thulium-fiber laser system. The high-average-power femtosecond frontend delivers a 50 MHz train of 250 fs pulses spectrally centered at 1.96 μm. The three parallel channels employ soliton self-compression in a fused-silica fiber, supercontinuum generation in a ZBLAN fiber, and difference-frequency generation in GaSe driven by soliton self-compressed pulses. The total output enables spectral coverage from 1.33 to 2.4 μm, from 2.4 to 5.2 μm, and from 5.2 to 18 μm with 4.5 W, 0.22 W and 0.5 W, respectively. This spatially coherent source with a footprint of less than 4 m2 exceeds the brilliance of 3rd-generation synchrotrons by more than three orders of magnitude over 90% of the bandwidth.
关键词： intra-pulse difference frequency generation (DFG),ultrafast optics,supercontinuum generation,mid-infrared generation,ZBLAN optical fibre,nonlinear optics
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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[IEEE 2019 18th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) - Huangshan, China (2019.8.5-2019.8.8)] 2019 18th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) - 30-W Supercontinuum Genaration in ZBLAN Fiber
摘要： We report results of experimental ZBLAN-fiber-based high-power supercontinuum (SC) laser source with maximal output power of over 30 W. Using a picosecond-thulium-doped fiber laser as pump source, a 30.2 W SC with spectral coverage of 1.85-3.41 μm was obtained. By applying a nanosecond pump laser with spectrum covering the 2-2.5 μm region, a 30.0 W SC with spectral range of 1.9-3.35 μm was achieved. Furthermore, a 27.4-W SC with spectral coverage of 1.9-3.63 μm was obtained by reducing the duty ratio of the pump laser. This letter, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, reports the ZBLAN-fiber based SC source with record power to date.
关键词： high-power,supercontinuum generation,ZBLAN fiber
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Tunable passively Q-switched Dy <sup>3+</sup> -doped fiber laser from 271 to 308??μm using PbS nanoparticles
摘要： We present the first widely tunable passively Q-switched Dy3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser around 3 μm pumped at 1.1 μm using PbS nanoparticles as the saturable absorber (SA) to our knowledge. At 2.87 μm, the modulation depth and saturation intensity of the SA were measured to be 12.5% and 1.10 MW∕cm2, respectively. Stable Q-switching was achieved over a wavelength range of 2.71–3.08 μm (～370 nm), which is a record tuning range from a pulsed rare-earth-doped fiber laser, to our knowledge. A maximum output power of 252.7 mW was obtained, with a pulse energy of 1.51 μJ, a pulse width of 795 ns, and a repetition rate of 166.8 kHz. This demonstration implies that Dy3+ is a promising gain medium for tunable pulsed sources in the 3 μm band and shows for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the potential of PbS as a mid-infrared SA.
关键词： Dy3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser,passively Q-switched,PbS nanoparticles,mid-infrared,tunable
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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All-fiber sub-20a??ps ultra low repetition rate high peak power mode-locked fiber laser to generate supercontinuum
摘要： We report an ultra-low repetition rate self-started mode-locked fiber laser at 1.55 μm spectral region with a sub-20 ps pulse duration at repetition rate of less than 100 kHz leading to high energy and peak power pulses. A repetition rate of 13.8 kHz with the pulsewidth of 17 ps is then achieved and the issue of multiple pulses is mitigated in the linear cavity structure by proper selection of semiconductor saturable absorber and dispersion management in the cavity. A broad supercontinuum achieved using 7 m SM-ZBLAN fiber while pumping with mode-locked fiber laser with repetition rate, pulsewidth, pulse energy and peak power of 53 kHz, 12.5 ps, 16.6 μJ and 1.3 MW, respectively.
关键词： mode-locked fibre laser,ultra low repetition rate,high peak power pulsed laser,ZBLAN single mode fiber (SMF),supercontinuum
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Generating Picosecond Pulses from Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers using Frequency-Shifted Feedback
摘要： Ultrafast mode-locked ?ber lasers in the near infrared have enabled a host of key applications in a variety of ?elds such as medicine and defense. In recent years there has been signi?cant interest in pushing the emission wavelength of these ?ber laser systems to the mid infrared (MIR 3 - 5 μm) due to the presence of strong molecular absorption features in this spectral range. Various techniques to achieve this have been demonstrated, with a majority of the work focused on implementation of loss modulation via real saturable absorbers. While this has been successful in generating picosecond pulses in the mid-infrared [1], commercial availability of absorbers is currently limited, and alternatives such as nanomaterials (graphene, black phosphorous) raise questions regarding long-term stability. Virtual absorbers based on nonlinear polarization evolution have shown comparatively superior performance in terms of pulse duration [2] but this method is highly sensitive to small environmental perturbations. In this work we will present recent efforts to offer an alternative method of ‘mode-locking’ using frequency-shifted feedback (FSF) [3,4]. The method requires a frequency shifting element in the cavity, which in this case is an acousto-optic ?lter or modulator. Initial efforts are based on a dysprosium-doped ZBLAN ?ber laser pumped with an Er:ZBLAN ?ber laser (Fig. 1a). An acousto-optic tunable ?lter (AOTF) provides the requisite frequency shift and also a means of tuning the emission wavelength. The broad gain bandwith of dysprosium allows this system to be tuned over a range of 330 nm (Fig. 1b) with a pulse duration that remains consistent at 33 ps. Pulse formation dynamics are investigated numerically and will be presented with consideration to the various parameters that impact realized pulse duration. Of these it will be shown that a ?ltering effect is necessary in addition to the frequency shifting, with the AOTF providing this in the dysprosium case. Filter bandwidth is shown to in part dictate pulse duration, with a wider ?lter supporting shorter pulses. To investigate this we replace the dysprosium cavity with a similar holmium-doped system which replaces the AOTF with a simple acousto-optic modulator (AOM). The broader acceptance bandwidth of the AOM results in improved performance and a pulse duration of less than 5 ps (Fig.1 c-e), which surpasses the current record performance of mid-IR saturable absorber ?ber lasers systems.
关键词： holmium-doped system,frequency-shifted feedback,dysprosium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser,picosecond pulses,acousto-optic tunable filter,mid-infrared fiber lasers
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - A Multiple-Waveguide Mode-Locked Chip-Laser Architecture
摘要： Frequency combs and analogue to digital sampling are emerging applications that can benefit from advances in elegant, compact, and high performance miniature mode-locked lasers. By virtue of their ‘chip-scale’, and multiplicity of adjacent waveguides, compact cavity planar waveguide devices are suited to efficiently operate in the ~0.5 GHz to 10 GHz pulse regimes. The ultra-fast chip laser platform we have pioneered is based on direct inscription of sub-surface large mode-area waveguides into rare-earth doped fluorozirconate (ZBLAN) glass chips. Multiple waveguides per chip are rapidly written via computer numerically controlled (CNC) ultra-fast laser inscription (ULI); a flexible and advancing waveguide fabrication technique. The guided-wave confinement of these fiber like structures in this bulk gain media ensures efficient pump and cavity mode overlap, robust alignment, and single transverse mode operation. Our initial mode-locking experiments focused on erbium doped ZBLAN chips (sensitized by Yb). These lasers display reasonable cw laser performance, a large single transverse-mode, a wide tunable range covering 1510-1590 nm, and a zero-dispersion wavelength of 1650 nm, thereby reducing the requirement for dispersion compensation. The erbium ytterbium cerium co-doped ZBLAN chips have been demonstrated to produce transform limited mode-locked output near 1.55 μm, with pulse lengths down to 180 fs, and operation up to 3 GHz. In recent work we have also demonstrated cw mode-locking near 1 μm based on Yb doped ZBLAN chip lasers. This talk will provide an overview of chip fabrication, cavity design, mode-locking configuration, and mode-locking results we have achieved. By taking advantage of the multiple waveguide channels, we have demonstrated a cavity that could simultaneously operate adjacent mode-locked erbium lasers using all common cavity components. By slightly modifying one of the cavity lengths, the dual mode-locked laser was shown to operate as an ultra-stable dual frequency comb. This laser possessed the highest mutual coherence reported to date for a passively stabilised dual-comb laser.
关键词： waveguide,ZBLAN glass,frequency combs,ultra-fast laser inscription,mode-locked lasers
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - UV Luminescence in Ho:ZBLAN Glasses
摘要： Compact, short-wavelength lasers are continuously considered as one of the most attractive among all coherent light sources. A very wide range of applications such as data storage, photolithography, medical diagnostics and sterilization motivates research and development on new active materials which can efficiently emit light in the UV spectral range. There are three general methods to achieve UV and visible light emission. The first are semiconductor-based LEDs and laser diodes - in the recent years a rapid progress in the field of semiconductor lasers has been observed resulting in a variety of commercially available short-wavelength laser diodes. These impressive devices, however, are not free from some disadvantages, like poor quality of the beam and limited output power. That’s why other sources continue to attract researchers’ attention. The second method deploys nonlinear crystals, which enable obtaining short wavelength emission by the frequency multiplication. The third way to achieve UV and visible light is to directly use the optical transitions within rare earth ions in solid state media [1-2]. This work is focused on this last method.
关键词： short-wavelength emission,Ho:ZBLAN glasses,optical spectroscopy,rare earth ions,UV luminescence
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04