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most citedTowards 'smart lasers': self-optimisation of an ultrafast pulse source using a genetic algorithm

145 citations · 282 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.optics2018★ 27 cited

Scalar Nanosecond Pulse Generation in a Nanotube Mode-Locked Environmentally Stable Fiber Laser

R. I. Woodward, E. J. R. Kelleher, D. Popa +5

We report an environmentally stable nanotube mode-locked fibre laser producing linearly-polarized, nanosecond pulses. A simple all-polarization-maintaining fibre ring cavity is use…

physics.optics2017★ 58 cited

Genetic algorithm-based control of birefringent filtering for self-tuning, self-pulsing fiber lasers

R. I. Woodward, E. J. R. Kelleher

Polarization-based filtering in fiber lasers is well-known to enable spectral tunability and a wide range of dynamical operating states. This effect is rarely exploited in practica…

physics.optics2016★ 145 cited

Towards 'smart lasers': self-optimisation of an ultrafast pulse source using a genetic algorithm

R. I. Woodward, E. J. R. Kelleher

Short-pulse fibre lasers are a complex dynamical system possessing a broad space of operating states that can be accessed through control of cavity parameters. Determination of tar…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 26 cited

Characterization of the second- and third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities of monolayer MoS using multiphoton microscopy

R. I. Woodward, R. T. Murray, C. F. Phelan +8

We report second- and third-harmonic generation in monolayer MoS as a tool for imaging and accurately characterizing the material's nonlinear optical properties under…

nlin.PS2016★ 24 cited

Dark solitons in laser radiation build-up dynamics

R. I. Woodward, E. J. R. Kelleher

We reveal the existence of slowly-decaying dark solitons in the radiation build-up dynamics of bright pulses in all-normal dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers, numerically modeled…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 2 cited

Surfactant-aided exfoliation of molydenum disulphide for ultrafast pulse generation through edge-state saturable absorption

Richard C. T. Howe, Robert I. Woodward, Guohua Hu +3

We use liquid phase exfoliation to produce dispersions of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) nanoflakes in aqueous surfactant solutions. The chemical structures of the bile salt surfacta…