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Wavelength tunable soliton rains in a nanotube-mode locked Tm-doped fiber laser

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Peer-reviewed

Type

Article

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Authors

Fu, B 
Zhao, Z 
Hussain, SA 
Flahaut, E 

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.

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Keywords

physics.optics, physics.optics, cond-mat.mes-hall, physics.app-ph

Journal Title

Applied Physics Letters

Conference Name

Journal ISSN

1077-3118
1077-3118

Volume Title

113

Publisher

AIP Publishing
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/G030480/1)
Royal Society (unknown)
Royal Society (unknown)
Royal Society (JP080053)
Royal Society (nf080934)
Royal Society (TG102524)
Isaac Newton Trust (MINUTE 726(F))
EPSRC (452)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/E500935/1)
European Research Council (208948)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L016087/1)
The Royal Society (uf072943)
The Royal Society (wm090070)
Isaac Newton Trust (1135(N))
Royal Society (516002K5698/kk)
The Royal Society (fi061247)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K01711X/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K017144/1)
European Research Council (319277)
We acknowledge funding from ERC Grant Hetero2D, EPSRC Grants Nos. EP/L016087/1, EP/K017144/1, EP/K01711X/1 and the China Scholarship Council.