{"id":13677,"date":"2017-11-21T09:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T09:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T09:11:35","slug":"improving-femtosecond-ultrashort-pulse-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/improving-femtosecond-ultrashort-pulse-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers developed extremely short pulse lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers developed a new method for making extremely short pulse lasers that could lead to precision eye surgery and material processing.<\/strong><\/span>
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Researchers conducting experiments at the KIST Sensor System Research Center*.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MXenes<\/a>\u00a0are two-dimensional\u00a0inorganic compounds, conductive materials widely used in many industries, now have one more promising application: helping lasers fire extremely short femtosecond <\/a>pulses, which last just millionths of a billionth of a second. The finding, made by an international team of researchers, opens up avenues for developing advanced femtosecond <\/a>pulse lasers, which can be used for precision eye surgery and material processing.<\/span>
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\nMXenes are a class of two-dimensional materials made of transition metals \u2014 the metals occupying the central block of the periodic table \u2014 combined with carbon and\/or nitrogen. Despite their promising performance in a broad range of applications, including energy storage and gas sensing, their potential use for ultrafast optics had not been explored.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nResearchers at the\u00a0Korea Institute of Science and Technology\u00a0(KIST<\/a>)\u00a0and the University of Seoul in Korea, together with colleagues at Drexel University in the US, tested a MXene made of titanium carbonitride to fabricate a \u2018mode-locking\u2019 device. The apparatus was placed in the laser cavity and found to produce stable laser pulses only 600 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) long.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThis metallic MXene based device was found to be applicable for long wavelength mid-IR lasers, which is a very strong advantage for laser applications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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\nFemtosecond-long laser pulses have many applications, such as in i-Lasik precision eye surgery, in which tiny areas of tissue need to be destroyed in a time short enough that the energy used for this purpose can\u2019t diffuse to the surrounding tissues and damage them. These laser pulses are also used to fabricate micro-sized sensors and devices.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThe research can be used to develop strategies for fabricating saturable an absorber materials, which absorb less light as its intensity increases. This optical phenomenon is one of several generated as a result of a concept called non linearity. Nonlinear optics has been one of the most rapidly growing scientific fields in past decades. \u201cThe discovery of promising nonlinear optical materials will play a pivotal role in the evolution of future optics and its impact can be very significant in both fundamental aspects and industrial applications,\u201d write the researchers in their study published in the journal\u00a0Advanced Materials.<\/em><\/span>
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