We employ graphene saturable absorption for the theoretical demonstration of mirrors based on planar silicon photonic Bragg gratings. Two geometries are investigated, that a wire grating and slot grating, showcasing increased light-matter interaction high-confinement waveguide. The gratings designed in linear regime single mode operation, low footprint broadband operation near infrared optical ...

Recent developments in telecommunications, frequency metrology, and medical imaging have motivated research in ultrafast optics. Demand exists for broadband components and sources as well as highly nonlinear fibers and materials. For this thesis, several different devices have been developed for such applications. Broadband saturable absorbers based on III/V and Si materials systems were develo...

We have proposed a theoretical model to study bistable switching between two optical signals using a vertical cavity semiconductor saturable absorber (VCSSA) operating in reflection mode. The model is based on the carrier rate equation, which predicts cross-absorption phenomena within the absorber region. Simulations are carried out to investigate the effect of various cavity parameters on swit...

A novel saturable absorber (SA) was fabricated by coating the topological insulator (TI) film on microfiber using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method. The TISA device had an insertion loss of ~1.25 dB, a saturable intensity of 26.7 MW/cm(2), a modulation depth of ~5.7%, and a nonsaturable loss of 20.5%. Upon employing this SA device, we established a passively mode-locked EDFL and achieved nea...

Broadband graphene oxide/PVA films were used as saturable absorbers (SAs) for mode locking erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) and ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL) at 1.06 μm and 1.55 μm. They provide modulation depths of 3.15% and 6.2% for EDFL and YDFL, respectively. Stable self-starting mode-locked pulses are obtained for both lasers, confirming that the graphene oxide is cost-effective. We ha...

The stability analysis of a model for a laser system with two modulated saturable absorbers, each one modulated at a different frequency, is performed. The model is based on four equations describing the temporal evolution of the photon flux, the population inversion in the active media, and the saturation coefficients of each saturable absorber. The system dynamics is discussed in order to fin...