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

B. Fu (1, 2) , Daniel Popa (1) , Z. Zhao (1) , Syed Asad Hussain (1) , Emmanuel Flahaut (3) , Tawfique Hasan (1) , Giancarlo Soavi (1) , Andrea C. Ferrari

1 CAM - University of Cambridge [UK]
2 BUAA - Beihang University
3 CIRIMAT - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux

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.

Mots clés: Tunable Laser; Double-walled carbon nanotube; Ultrafast spectroscopy

Domaines: Génie des procédés; Matériaux

B. Fu, Daniel Popa, Z. Zhao, Syed Asad Hussain, Emmanuel Flahaut, et al.. Wavelength tunable soliton rains in a nanotube-mode locked Tm-doped fiber laser. Applied Physics Letters, 2018, 113 (19), pp.193102. ⟨10.1063/1.5047492⟩. ⟨hal-01976910⟩