Vertical TiO2 Nanorods as a Medium for Durable and High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Modules by Azhar, Fakharuddin, Rajan, Jose, Francesco, Di Giacomo, Alessandro, L. Palma, Fabio, Matteocci, Irfan, Ahmed, Stefano, Razza, Alessandra, D'Epifanio, Silvia, Licoccia, Jamil, Ismail, Aldo, Di Carlo, Thomas, M. Brown

“…A crucial issue on the module fabrication was the patterning of the TiO2 NRs, which was solved by interfacial engineering during the growth process and using an optimized laser pulse for patterning. A shelf life comparison with PSMs built on TiO2 nanoparticles (NP, best & av. …”
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Investigation on the weld geometry of fiber laser dissimilar welded of boron steel for TWB application by M., Ishak, M. N. M., Salleh, Aiman, Mohd Halil, A. M., Hanafi

“…Due to an ability to produce higher peak power in low power laser pulse mode which is related to performance process parameter, the weld penetration and quality can be achieve similar to utilization of high power laser CW mode. …”
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A Four-channel TEA N2 laser controlled by a multistage spark gap by Tou, T.Y., Kwek, K.H., Chin, Oi Hoong

“…The delays between these laser pulses depend mainly on two important spark gap breakdown parameters: the charging voltage and their respective gap separations. …”

Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser with molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanoparticles on D-shaped fiber as saturable absorber by Ahmad, Harith, Soltani, Soroush, Thambiratnam, Kavintheran

“…In this study, short Q-switching laser pulses are generated by drop-casting two-dimensional Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) nanoparticles as saturable absorbers (SA) on a side polished optical fiber in a C-band laser cavity. …”

Several mode-locked pulses generation and transmission over soliton based optical transmission link by Amiri, I.S., Alavi, S.E.

“…A soliton-based optical communication system is presented to generate and transmits several mode locked laser pulses (generated by fiber laser setup) over 50 km fiber and 120 m wireless link. …”

Effect of dephasing on single-qubit rotation gates by Issoufa, Youssouf Hamidou, Messikh, Azeddin

“…In this paper we investigate the effect of dephasing on the performance of the quantum rotation gate implemented by adiabatic passage and static laser pulses proposed in Lacour et al (2006 Opt. Commun. 264 362). …”
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Dissipative soliton mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser using Nb2AlC nanomaterial saturable absorber by Arni Munira Markom, Nurul Athirah Mohamad Abdul Ghafar, Malathy Batumalay, Yusrina Yusof, Ahmad Haziq Aiman Rosol, Nur Farhanah Zulkipli, Ahmad Razif Muhammad, Hazlihan Haris, Ismail Saad, Sulaiman Wadi Harun

“…In addition to providing some useful design suggestions for manufacturing SAs based on MAX phase materials, this work shows the MAX phase materials’ immense potential for making ultra-short laser pulses.…”
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Near-Infrared Soliton Mode-Locked Thulium Doped Fibre Laser Using WS2-ZnO Composite Material as Saturable Absorber by Ahmad, Harith, Monajemi, Hadieh, Samion, Muhamad Zharif, Yusoff, Norazriena, Ismail, Mohammad Faizal, Yasin, Mohamad, Bayang, Leonard

“…This laser set-up is highly robust and realizes highly stable laser pulses in the mid-IR wavelength range for a multitude of applications. © 2009-2012 IEEE.…”

Investigation of nonlinear optical properties on structures of silver micro-flowers by Zakaria, Rozalina, Mezher, M.H., Chong, W.Y.

“…The nonlinear optical property of the material was investigated by a Z-scan technique using femtosecond laser pulses at 800 nm. The AgMFs with higher Ag concentration show a greater enhancement in magnitude and sharpness of the plasmon resonance band. …”

Theory of coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering for mesoscopic particle with complex molecules: angular-dependent spectrum by Ooi, Chong Heng Raymond

“…By incorporating the theory into an integral scattering formula, we develop a rigorous theory which leads to powerful numerical experimentation of nonlinear optical process in mesoscopic systems composed of complex molecules and driven by laser pulses with arbitrary shape and spectral content. …”

Fundamental ablation of argon - flouride excimer laser on polymethyl methacrylate by interferomety technique by Yahaya @ Jaafar, Hanani

“…By increasing number of laser pulses from 10 pulses to 20 pulses after ablation threshold, the ablation depth on the tested region was estimated and found that the depth varied in between 40 nm to 800 nm. …”
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A few-picosecond and high-peak-power passively mode-locked erbium-doped fibre laser based on zinc oxide polyvinyl alcohol film saturable absorber by Alani, Ibrahim A.M., Lokman, Muhammad Quisar, Ahmed, Mahmoud Hazzaa M., Al-Masoodi, Ahmed Hasan Hamood, Latiff, Anas Abdul, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi

“…Self-started mode-locked laser pulses have been generated at a relatively low pump power of 42 mW with a fundamental repetition rate and pulse duration of 3.26 MHz and 2.60 ps, respectively. …”

Quantum key distribution in real life by Ali, Sellami, Ahmed, Abdallah Hassen, Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi, Chowdhury, Md. Sazzad Hossien

“…Theoretically, unconditional security provided by QKD is guaranteed by the fundamental laws of quantum physics. in the real life, it is still possible to obtain unconditionally secure QKD, even with (phase randomized) attenuated laser pulses, as theoretically demonstrated by Gottesman-Lo-L¨utkenhaus-Preskill (GLLP). …”
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Temporal soliton: Generation and applications in optical communications by Amiri, I.S., Alavi, S.E., Supa'at, A.S.M., Ali, J., Ahmad, Harith

“…The soliton signals experience less loss during the propagation, where they are more stable compared to normal conventional laser pulses. Using the series of MRRs connected to an add/drop system, shorter soliton bandwidth and highly multi soliton pulses can be obtained. …”

Quantum key distribution using decoy state protocol by Ali, Sellami, Saharudin, Shuhairi, Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza

“…Unfortunately, for real-life experimental set-ups, which mainly based on faint laser pulses, the occasional production of multi-photons and channel loss make it possible for sophisticated eavesdroppers to launch various subtle eavesdropping attacks including the Photon Number Splitting (PNS) attack. …”
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Erbium doped fiber lasers utilizing gadolinium oxide, neodymium oxide and samarium oxide as passive saturable absorbers by Mat Yusoff, Rabi’atul ‘Adawiyah

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Structural parameters versus third-order optical susceptibility of zinc porphyrin molecules by Amina, Yasin, Nair, Vijayakumar S., Mohd Hasbi, Ab. Rahim, Yamaoka, Yoshihisa, Yelleswarapu, Chandra S., Jose, Rajan

“…Herein, the third-order NLO properties of molecularly engineered π-expanded Zn(ii)porphyrins (Por-Cn-RAm, wheren= 12 or 8 andm= 1-4) are evaluated by open and closed aperture Z-scan techniques using nanosecond laser pulses and the results are compared with DFT calculations. …”
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Newly developed chromium-doped fiber as a saturable absorber at 1.55- and 2.0-µm regions for Q-switching pulses generation by Dutta, Debjit, Paul, Mukul Chandra, Dhar, Anirban, Das, Shyamal, Rusdi, Muhammad Farid Mohd, Latiff, Anas Abdul, Ahmad, Harith, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi

“…In TDF laser cavity, the laser pulsing generates from 363 mW to 528 mW, where the repetition rate increases from 13.02 kHz to 27.62 kHz. …”