Tutorial paper on Carbon-nanotube and Graphene Photonics

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Subcommittee 6Fiber and Waveguide Based
Devices Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and
Performance Monitors Technical Briefing

• Presented by
• Morten Ibsen, ORC - Univ. of Southampton, U.K.

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Technical Focus
This category covers all aspects of fiber and
waveguide based optically pumped amplifiers,
lasers, and other light sources. It also includes
all types of sensors and performance monitoring
devices.

• Optical fiber and planar waveguide lasers and
  amplifiers.
• Silica and non-silica, Telecom, Non-telecom,
  Rare-earth, Parametric, Raman, Brillouin, Hybrid,
  High-power, Silicon
• Wideband and supercontinuum sources.
• Optical sensors.
• Bio-photonic devices and device configurations.
• Performance monitoring techniques and devices.
• Poled devices and device configurations.
• Periodic devices incl. Bragg gratings, long
  period gratings and QPM devices and their
  applications.
• Novel devices and device configurations for
  signal measurement and sensing.

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Subcommittee Members

• Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southampton, U.K.,
  Subcommittee Chair
• Nikola Alic, Univ. of California at San Diego,
  U.S.A.
• John Canning, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
• John Dudley, Univ. of Franche-Comté, France
• Karin Ennser, Swansea University, U.K.
• Masaaki Hirano, Sumitomo Electric Industries
  Ltd., Japan
• Clay Kirkendall, NRL, U.S.A.
• Ju Han Lee, Univ. of Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Nathan Newbury, NIST, U.S.A.
• Lin Zhang, Aston University, U.K.

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Technical Program

• 1 Workshop
• 1 Tutorial
• 11 Invited Speakers
• 36 Contributed Oral Papers
• 6 Poster Papers
• X Postdeadline Papers

8 Technical Sessions
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Technical Program

• Workshop OSuB, Best Saturable Absorber for
  Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers SESAM, CNT or
  Graphene?
• Sunday, March 6 from 4.30-7.30 p.m. in Room 404
  AB
• Organised by Sze Y. Set, Ju Han Lee and Morten
  Ibsen.
• Recently a number of new exciting saturable
  absorbers, including Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and
  Graphene, have emerged for passive mode-locking
  of fiber lasers to challenge the more established
  semiconductor-type mode-locker.
• This workshop aims to debate whether it is this
  likely for these nano-carbon materials to replace
  the SESAM as the material of choice for passive
  mode-locking of fiber lasers.
• In this workshop a panel of experts will
• 1) discuss the pros and cons of the various
  materials incl. their performance parameters,
  stability and long-term reliability.
• 2) attempt to establish whether the time has
  come for SESAM to give way to the emerging
  carbon-based technologies.

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Technical Program

• Tutorial on Carbon-nanotube and Graphene
  Photonics by Prof. Shinji
  Yamashita of Tokyo University, Japan
• Thursday, March 10 from 100 200 p.m. in Room
  404 AB
• Paper OThL1.
• In addition to their very useful electronic
  properties CNT and Graphene also exhibits
  interesting optical properties which could be of
  potential interest in sensing and nonlinear
  optics.
• This tutorial will discuss the basics of CNT and
  Graphene, and highlight and explore their
  potential use in a range of photonic applications
  including
• Light emitters/detectors.
• Laser mode lockers.
• Nonlinear devices.

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Technical Program

• Session OMH on Optical Amplifiers
• Monday, March 7, 130 330 p.m. in Room 404 AB
• 4 contributed presentations and 2 invited
  presentations.
• Invited paper on Bismuth-Doped Optical Fiber
  Amplifier for 1430nm Band Pumped 1310nm Laser
  Diode by Prof. Evgeny Dianov of FORC, Russia
• OMH1 130 200 p.m.
• Invited paper on Evolution of Commercial EDFAs
  by Dr. Maxim Bolshtyansky of JDSU, U.S.A.
• OMH2 200 230 p.m.
• A highlight of the session will be reported in
  OMH5 at 300 p.m. where the evolution of various
  potential amplifier concepts to meet future high
  capacity demands will be discussed.
• Enhanced wavelength coverage, lower cost and
  enhanced energy efficiency are some of the future
  challenges of these technologies.

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Technical Program

• Session OMQ on Fiber Lasers
• Monday, March 7, 400 545 p.m. in Room 404 AB
• 3 contributed presentations and 2 invited
  presentations.
• Invited paper on Random DFB Fiber Laser by
  Prof. Sergei Turitsyn of Aston University, U.K.
• OMQ1 400 430 p.m.
• Invited paper on Recent Progress on 2-Micron
  Fiber Lasers by Dr. Shibin Jiang of
  AdValue Photonics Inc., U.S.A.
• OMQ4 500 530 p.m.
• This session focuses on
• Raman fiber lasers.
• Wideband sources.
• Pulse-shaping.
• A highlight of the session will be reported in
  OMQ5 at 530 p.m. where a pulsed fiber MOPA
  source operating at 1550nm with pulse distortion
  pre-compensation will be demonstrated.

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Technical Program

• Session OTuC on Bragg Gratings and Novel
  Oscillators
• Tuesday, March 8, 200 400 p.m. in Room 404
  AB
• 4 contributed presentations and 2 invited
  presentations.
• Invited paper on Developments and Applications
  of Microstructured Fiber Bragg Gratings by Dr.
  Andrea Cusano of Univ. of Sannio, Italy.
• OTuC1 200 230 p.m.
• Invited paper on All-Silica Photonic Bandgap
  Fiber Oscillators and Amplifiers by Dr.
  Sébastian Février of Xlim - Univ. of Limoges,
  France.
• OTuC4 300 330 p.m.
• This session will show results on
• Bragg grating fabrication in microfibers and
  Bismuth doped fibers.
• Large mode field fibers for higher power fiber
  laser systems.
• A highlight of the session will be reported in
  OTuC5 at 330 p.m. where a Yb-doped large pitch
  fiber with a 105mm mode field diameter tested in
  a 3.8GW peak-power fiber CPA system will be
  demonstrated.

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Technical Program

• Session OTuL on Fiber Sensing
• Tuesday, March 8, 430 630 p.m. in Room 404
  AB
• 4 contributed presentations and 2 invited
  presentations.
• Invited paper on Distribution Optical Sensor
  System on the 610-m Guangzhou New TV Tower by
  Prof. Hwa Yaw Tam, Hong Kong Polytechnical
  University, China
• OTuL1 430 500 p.m.
• Invited paper on Photonic MicroCells Based on
  Hollow-core PCF by Dr. Fetah Benabid, Univ. of
  Bath, U.K.
• OTuL6 600 630 p.m.
• This session will also include material on
• Long-range distributed sensing systems.
• Absolute wavelength referencing in optical
  fibers.
• A highlight of this session will be demonstrated
  in OTuL2 at 5.00 p.m. where a 56km long
  distributed strain and temperature sensing fiber
  link with 40cm spatial resolution will be
  demonstrated.

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Technical Program

• Session OWC on Performance Monitoring
• Wednesday, March 9, 800 1000 a.m. in Room 404
  AB
• 6 contributed presentations and 1 invited
  presentation.
• Invited paper on Optical Processing for
  Performance Monitoring by Dr. Mark Pelusi, IPOS
  CUDOS, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
• OWC1 800 830 a.m.
• This session focuses on
• Monitoring of OSNR and polarization.
• Remote calibration of optical components.
• A highlight of the session will be reported in
  OWTC at 900 a.m. where robust remote (30km)
  calibration of a fiber polarimeter will be
  demonstrated.

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Technical Program

• Session OWL on Fiber Parametric Processing
• Wednesday, March 9, 100 300 p.m. in Room 404
  AB
• 6 contributed talks and 1 invited presentation.
• Invited paper on Advanced Fiber Optic Parametric
  Synthesis and Characterization by Dr. Evgeny
  Myslivets of Univ. of California at San Diego,
  U.S.A.
• OWL5 200 230 p.m.
• This session focuses on
• Parametric amplifiers and oscillators.
• Parametric mixers.
• Wideband tunable fiber OPOs.
• A highlight of the session will be reported in
  OWL1 at 100 p.m. where a 320Gbps DPSK
  transmitter and self tracked receiver based on
  FWM will be demonstrated.

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Technical Program

• Session OThL on Photonic Applications of
  Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
• Thursday, March 10, 100 300 p.m. in Room 404
  AB
• 4 contributed presentations and 1 tutorial.
• Tutorial paper on Carbon-nanotube and Graphene
  Photonics by Prof. Shinji Yamashita from Univ.
  of Tokyo, Japan
• OThL1 100 200 p.m.
• This session focuses on
• Passive mode-locking using CNTs and Graphene.
• Noise suppression in mode locked lasers using
  Graphene.
• A highlight of the session will be reported in
  OThL5 at 245 p.m. where a phase noise and timing
  jitter eliminator based on Graphene will be
  discussed.

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Technical Program

• Session OThU on Processing on a Chip
• Thursday, March 10, 330 515 p.m. in Room 404
  AB
• 5 contributed presentations and 1 invited
  presentation.
• Invited paper on SPIDER on a Chip a Phase
  Sensitive Ultrafast Oscilloscope by Alessia
  Pasquazi from INRS-EMT, Canada
• OThU1 330 400 p.m.
• This session includes presentations on
• Silicon waveguide technology.
• PPLN waveguides for parametric phase sensitive
  amplification and wavelength conversion.
• A highlight of the session will be reported in
  OThU4 at 430 p.m. where frequency conversion of
  mid IR signals to the telecoms band using silicon
  nanophotonic wires will be demonstrated.