Nonlinearity-tailored fiber laser technology for low-noise, ultra-wideband tunable femtosecond light generation

Xiaomin Liu; Jesper Laegsgaard; Roman Iegorov; Ask S. Svane; F. Ömer Ilday; Haohua Tu; Stephen A. Boppart; Dmitry Turchinovich

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000750

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 750(2017)

Nonlinearity-tailored fiber laser technology for low-noise, ultra-wideband tunable femtosecond light generation

Xiaomin Liu^1,2、†, Jesper Laegsgaard^1、†, Roman Iegorov^3,4, Ask S. Svane¹, F. Ömer Ilday^3,5, Haohua Tu⁶, Stephen A. Boppart⁶, and Dmitry Turchinovich^2,7、*

Author Affiliations

¹DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

²Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany

³Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey

⁴National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Institute of Power Engineering, 30 Lenin Avenue, 634050 Tomsk, Russia

⁵Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey

⁶Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

⁷Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 1, 47048 Duisburg, Germany

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Jul. 31, 2017

Accepted: Oct. 26, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

The Author Email: Dmitry Turchinovich (dmitry.turchinovich@uni-due.de)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000750

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