We report on a new method for fabrication of saturable absorbers for operation in ring fiber lasers as a mode-locking element taking advantages of the manufacturing technologies of fiber couplers and microfiber tapers coated with carbon nanotubes. It is demonstrated in the experiment that the transmittance of the fabricated saturable absorber increases with an increase of the input radiation power. Also, we have shown that the fabricated saturable absorber enables generation of picosecond soliton pulses in ring fiber laser configuration.
In this work we provided a review of the study of MACE (metal-assisted chemical etching) of Si with Ag, Pt, Ni and Au films and clusters. Type and shape of the metal mask play an important role in determination of morphology of the nanostructured layer. It is possible to form both wide range of porous layer and nanowires array. The basic features of the MACE with various types and shape of the metal were revealed.
In this paper, the influence of the conditions of chemical and electrochemical nickel plating of nanostructured silicon and subsequent heat treatment on the phase composition of Si/Ni structures with advanced interface is studied. Nanostructured silicon formed by chemical and electrochemical etching was used for the formation of a developed interphase surface. The resulting Si/Ni samples were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analysis, and X-ray phase analysis. The experiments have revealed the differences in phase composition of the Si/Ni structures obtained by different methods, both before and after heat treatment.
Process of reactive ion etching of Ge2Sb2Te5 thin film was studied in the work. It was found that Ar+O2 gas mixture has a minimum etching rate (7.4 nm/min) and Ar+SF6 (37.0 nm/min) mixtures have highest etching rate. Surface roughness decreased from ~0.8 nm before etching to the value of ~0.5 nm after etching. EDXRA showed the absence of the contamination by the components of the gas mixtures after the etching.
A method based on electrophoretic deposition (EPD) has been developed to produce uniform and local deposits of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNT) on interdigital structures of planar supercapacitor (SC) at room temperatures. Alcohol/acetone suspensions were used under constant voltage conditions in the range of 6 to 100 V, with deposition times ranging from 2 to 60 minutes and electrodes space from 2 to 15 mm. It was shown that for dense layers deposition with good adhesion on the narrow lines of the planar SC electrodes it is necessary to use average values of the electric field and multi-stage method in which the deposition and drying processes are alternated. Electrochemical tests of the sandwich-like supercapacitors with electrodes obtained by the described method were carried out. The specific capacity of experimental samples increased from 0.24 to 1.07 mF/cm2 with an increase in the number of EPD cycles from 3 to 9.
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