Localised surface plasmons (LSPs) are now applied to various fields, such as bio-sensing, solar cell, molecular fluorescence enhancement and quantum-controlled devices at nanometre scale. Recent experiments show that LSPs are optically saturated by high-intensity light. Absorption saturation arises as a result of strong optical nonlinearity and cannot be explained by the conventional boson mode...

Wafer-scale MoS2 neat films with controllable thicknesses were successfully fabricated by vacuum filtering liquid-exfoliated MoS2 dispersions. The obtained MoS2 filtered thin films were systematically characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It was found that th...

Resonance properties of the all-fiber ring cavity filled with nonlinear material - saturable rare-earth-doped fiber are analyzed and experimentally investigated. Unlike earlier investigated erbium-doped at 1550nm where optical absorption photo-induced change (saturation) is observed only, ytterbium-doped 1064nm demonstrates saturation refractive index mainly. For this configuration we report ex...

Fueled by their high third-order nonlinearity and nonlinear saturable absorption, carbon nanotubes (CNT) are expected to become an integral part of next-generation photonic devices such as all-optical switches and passive mode-locked lasers. However, in order to fulfill this expectation it is necessary to identify a suitable platform that allows the efficient use of the optical properties of CN...

An ultra-broadband graphene-gold film saturable absorber mirror (GG-SAM) with a spectral coverage exceeding 1300 nm is experimentally demonstrated for mode-locking of bulk solid-state lasers. Owing to the p-type doping effect caused by graphene-gold film interaction, the graphene on gold-film substrate shows a remarkably lower light absorption relative to pristine graphene, which is very helpfu...

We present a detailed investigation on the intensity dependent third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of RF-sputtered WSe2 thin film using ultra short pulses. The employed single-beam Z-scan technique near-infrared (NIR) pulses centered at 1030 nm for ascertaining NLO response. results reveal reverse saturable absorption (RSA) signature, which is primarily due to contribution from two-p...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials possess optoelectronic and nonlinear optical properties make them used in many fields such as modulator, switch, single frequency (SF) fiber lasers a saturable absorber (SA) the laser cavity. This review deals with recent advances wavelength tunable based on these properties. It extends contents from previous reviews pulsed to SF which have emerged years. First, r...