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Jeffrey W. Nicholson

Jeffrey W. Nicholson

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
35
Citations
5944
World Ranking
8926
National Ranking
2487

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - OSA Fellows Jeffrey W Nicholson OFS Laboratories, United States “for pioneering contributions to fiber modal property measurements and significant contributions to the development of high-power and ultrafast fiber lasers” (Engineering and Science Research

Overview

Jeffrey W. Nicholson is affiliated with OFS in the United States. Their research spans fields primarily in Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics as subfields.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Solid State Laser Technologies
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors

Jeffrey W. Nicholson has coauthored with several collaborators frequently involved in related research areas. Notable coauthors include Robert S. Windeler, Vasiliy Lukonin, D. J. DiGiovanni, Yaakov Glick, and Jose Pincha.

Their publications appear in recognized venues such as:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Express
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • IET Conference Proceedings
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jeffrey W. Nicholson include:

  • "LMA fibers with increased higher-order mode loss for high average power, pulsed, diffraction-limited lasers," 2024, published in Optics Express
  • "1255-1355 nm (17.6 THz) Bandwidth O-Band BDFA Pumped Using Uncooled Multimode 915 nm Laser Diode via YDF Conversion Stage," 2023, published in Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Polarization-maintained propagation of a 2200 μm2 effective-area higher-order-mode in a bent optical fiber," 2020, published in Optics Express
  • "High Peak-Power Pulse Amplification in Very-Large Mode-Area Er-doped Amplifiers," 2021, published in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • "High Pulse Energy, Erbium-doped, Very-Large Mode Area Fiber Amplifier," 2022, published in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

In 2017, Jeffrey W. Nicholson received the OSA Fellows award for pioneering contributions to fiber modal property measurements and significant contributions to the development of high-power and ultrafast fiber lasers.

Best Publications

  • Spatially and spectrally resolved imaging of modal content in large-mode-area fibers

    J. W. Nicholson;A. D. Yablon;S. Ramachandran;S. Ghalmi

  • Phase-locked, erbium-fiber-laser-based frequency comb in the near infrared.

    Brian R. Washburn;Scott A. Diddams;Nathan R. Newbury;Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  • Few Mode Transmission Fiber With Low DGD, Low Mode Coupling, and Low Loss

    L. Gruner-Nielsen;Yi Sun;J. W. Nicholson;D. Jakobsen

  • Light propagation with ultralarge modal areas in optical fibers.

    S. Ramachandran;J. W. Nicholson;S. Ghalmi;M. F. Yan

  • Optically driven deposition of single-walled carbon-nanotube saturable absorbers on optical fiber end-faces

    J. W. Nicholson;R. S. Windeler;D. J. DiGiovanni

  • All-fiber, octave-spanning supercontinuum.

    J. W. Nicholson;M. F. Yan;P. Wisk;J. Fleming

  • Full-field characterization of femtosecond pulses by spectrum and cross-correlation measurements.

    J. W. Nicholson;J. Jasapara;W. Rudolph;F. G. Omenetto

  • Ultra‐large effective‐area, higher‐order mode fibers: a new strategy for high‐power lasers

    Siddharth Ramachandran;John M. Fini;Marc Mermelstein;Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  • High power, single mode, all-fiber source of femtosecond pulses at 1550 nm and its use in supercontinuum generation.

    Jeffrey W. Nicholson;A. D. Yablon;P. S. Westbrook;K. S. Feder

  • Raman fiber lasers

    V R Supradeepa;Yan Feng;Jeffrey W Nicholson

  • Pulsed and continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear, dispersion-shifted fibers

    J.W. Nicholson;A.K. Abeeluck;C. Headley;M.F. Yan

  • Measuring the Modal Content of Large-Mode-Area Fibers

    J.W. Nicholson;A.D. Yablon;J.M. Fini;M.D. Mermelstein

  • Power scaling of high-efficiency 1.5 μm cascaded Raman fiber lasers

    V. R. Supradeepa;Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  • Few Mode Transmission Fiber with low DGD, low Mode Coupling and low Loss

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  • Fiber-laser-based frequency comb with a tunable repetition rate.

    Brian Washburn;R W. Fox;Nathan R. Newbury;Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  • Fiber-laser frequency combs with subhertz relative linewidths

    William C. Swann;John J. McFerran;Ian R. Coddington;Nathan R. Newbury

  • Polarization Maintaining Single-Mode Low-Loss Hollow-Core Fiber

    John M Fini;Jeffrey W Nicholson;Robert Windeler;Eric M Monberg

  • Direct-comb molecular spectroscopy with accurate, resolved comb teeth over 43 THz.

    Alexander M. Zolot;Fabrizio R. Giorgetta;Esther Baumann;Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  • High-performance, vibration-immune, fiber-laser frequency comb

    Esther Baumann;Fabrizio R. Giorgetta;Jeffrey W. Nicholson;William C. Swann

  • Coherent optical link over hundreds of metres and hundreds of terahertz with subfemtosecond timing jitter

    I. Coddington;W. C. Swann;L. Lorini;J. C. Bergquist

  • Power scaling of high efficiency 1.5micron cascaded Raman fiber lasers

    V. R. Supradeepa;Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  • Raman fiber laser with 81 W output power at 1480 nm.

    J. W. Nicholson;M. F. Yan;P. Wisk;J. Fleming

  • 10 kHz accuracy of an optical frequency reference based on ^12C_2H_2-filled large-core kagome photonic crystal fibers

    Kevin Knabe;Shun Wu;Jinkang Lim;Karl A. Tillman

  • Supercontinuum generation in ultraviolet-irradiated fibers.

    J. W. Nicholson;P. S. Westbrook;K. S. Feder;A. D. Yablon

  • Low-loss hollow-core fibers with improved single-modedness

    John M. Fini;Jeffrey W. Nicholson;Robert S. Windeler;Eric M. Monberg

  • Few mode transmission fiber with low DGD, low mode coupling and low loss

    L. Gruner-Nielsen;Y. Sun;J. W. Nicholson;D. Jakobsen

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Fini
John M. Fini Ayar Labs (United States)
Siddharth Ramachandran
Siddharth Ramachandran Boston University
Scott A. Diddams
Scott A. Diddams University of Colorado Boulder
Leo W. Hollberg
Leo W. Hollberg Stanford University
Martin M. Fejer
Martin M. Fejer Stanford University
Jonathan Knight
Jonathan Knight University of Bath
Fetah Benabid
Fetah Benabid Xlim Research Institute

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