Browsing by Keywords "Fibers"
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1 mJ pulse bursts from a Yb-doped fiber amplifier
(Optical Society of America, 2012-05)We demonstrate burst-mode operation of a polarization-maintaining Yb-doped fiber amplifier capable of generating 60 μJ pulses within bursts of 11 pulses with extremely uniform energy distribution facilitated by a novel ... -
1018 nm Yb-doped high-power fiber laser pumped by broadband pump sources around 915 nm with output power above 100 W
(OSA - The Optical Society, 2017)We demonstrate a 1018 nm ytterbium-doped all-fiber laser pumped by tunable pump sources operating in the broad absorption spectrum around 915 nm. In the experiment, two different pump diodes were tested to pump over a wide ... -
All-fiber all-normal dispersion laser with a fiber-based Lyot filter
(Optical Society of America, 2010-04-15)We propose the use of a short section of polarization-maintaining fiber as a birefringent medium to construct an all-fiber Lyot filter inside the cavity of a fiber laser. This allows mode-locked operation of an all-fiber ... -
All-fiber all-normal dispersion laser with an in-fiber Lyot filter
(Optical Society of America, 2010)We propose use of a short PM-fiber section as birefringent medium to construct an all-fiber Lyot filter, with bandwidth adjustable through the PM-fiber length. An all-fiber all-normaldispersion laser is demonstrated using ... -
All-fiber high-energy yb-doped fiber amplifier
(IEEE, 2009)We report a robust, all-fiber amplifier seeded by a fiber oscillator. Seed pulses at 1 MHz repetition rate are amplified up to 3 μJ, delivering 1 μJ-energy, 170 fs-long pulses. Duration reduces to 120 fs at 1 μJ amplifier ... -
All-fiber nonlinearity-and dispersion-managed dissipative soliton nanotube mode-locked laser
(American Institute of Physics, 2015)We report dissipative soliton generation from an Yb-doped all-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed nanotube mode-locked laser. A simple all-fiber ring cavity exploits a photonic crystal fiber for both nonlinearity ... -
All-fiber, single-mode spectral beam combining of high power Tm-doped fiber lasers
(OSA, 2015)Signal beam combining of Tm-doped fiber lasers can increase the laser output power while simultaneously maintaining the single mode beam quality. We demonstrate an all-fiber integrated dual-wavelength Tm-doped fiber laser ... -
All-fiber-integrated soliton-similariton laser with in-line fiber filter
(Optical Society of America, 2012-08-16)We demonstrate an all-fiber-integrated Er-doped fiber laser operating in the soliton-similariton mode-locking regime. In the similariton part of the cavity, a self-similarly evolving parabolic pulse with highly linear chirp ... -
Antioxidant α-tocopherol/γ-cyclodextrin–inclusion complex encapsulated poly(lactic acid) electrospun nanofibrous web for food packaging
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2017-01)α-Tocopherol (α-TC) and α-TC/cyclodextrin (CD)–inclusion complex (IC) incorporated electrospun poly(lactic acid) (PLA) nanofibers (NF) were developed via electrospinning (PLA/α-TC–NF and PLA/α-TC/γ-CD–IC–NF). The release ... -
Artificial olfaction inside nanostructured infrared fiber arrays
(IEEE, 2011)Nanostructured hollow core fibers are used to demonstrate a new infrared absorption based artificial nose. The sensor unit of the array is a hollow core Bragg fiber that selectively guides incident blackbody radiation and ... -
Balancing gain narrowing with self phase modulation: 100-fs, 800-nJ from an all-fiber-integrated Yb amplifier
(IEEE, 2013)There is much progress in Yb-fiber oscillator-amplifier systems, which enable generation of high-repetition-rate, microjoule energies and sub-picosecond pulse widths [1,2]. Given the extremely large total gain factors to ... -
Binary coded identification of industrial chemical vapors with an optofluidic nose
(OSA - The Optical Society, 2016)An artificial nose system for the recognition and classification of gas-phase analytes and its application in identifying common industrial gases is reported. The sensing mechanism of the device comprises the measurement ... -
Bio-inspired hierarchically structured polymer fibers for anisotropic non-wetting surfaces
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)We demonstrate a rice leaf-like hierarchically textured polymer fiber array for anisotropic non-wetting surfaces. To provide superhydrophobicity in addition to the anisotropic behavior, fiber surfaces are spray coated with ... -
Bio-insprired optoelectronic digital nose for breath analysis
(2011)A novel electronic nose device is presented that can be used in disease diagnostics by exhaled breath analysis. Exhaled breath contains more than a thousand organic compounds that can be analysed to insect various diseases ... -
Burst-mode thulium all-fiber laser delivering femtosecond pulses at a 1 GHz intra-burst repetition rate
(Optical Society of America, 2017)We report on the development of, to the best of our knowledge, the first ultrafast burst-mode laser system operating at a central wavelength of approximately 2 μm, where water absorption and, consequently, the absorption ... -
CO2 laser polishing of conical shaped optical fiber deflectors
(Springer Verlag, 2017-06)A novel method for polishing conical shaped optical fiber deflectors by modulated CO2 laser exposure is reported. The conical shaped fiber deflector geometry was first formed with rough mechanical polishing, then it was ... -
Development of high power Cw Yb-Doped fiber laser system
(Bilkent University, 2015-01)High-average-power fiber lasers are interesting for many applications, including scientific instrumentation, industrial material processing, imaging, medical and military technologies. Fiber concept has well established ... -
Doping management for high-power fiber lasers: 100 W, few-picosecond pulse generation from an all-fiber-integrated amplifier
(Optical Society of America, 2012-07-16)Thermal effects, which limit the average power, can be minimized by using low-doped, longer gain fibers, whereas the presence of nonlinear effects requires use of high-doped, shorter fibers to maximize the peak power. We ... -
Electrospinning of gelatin with tunable fiber morphology from round to flat/ribbon
(Elsevier, 2017)The electrospinning of gelatin with tunable fiber morphology from round to flat/ribbon was shown, and the detailed studies were conducted to correlate the fiber morphology with electrospinning process parameters and gelatin ... -
Electrospun nylon 6,6 nanofibers functionalized with cyclodextrins for removal of toluene vapor
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2015)Functional nylon 6,6 nanofibers incorporating cyclodextrins (CD) were developed via electrospinning. Enhanced thermal stability of the nylon 6,6/CD nanofibers was observed due to interaction between CD and nylon 6,6. X-ray ...
