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  • 2020 - OSA Fellows Sze Set University of Tokyo, Japan For the invention of carbon nanotube mode-locked lasers and nano-carbon photonics, and pioneering contributions to the commercialization of technologies related to ultrafast optics

Overview

Sze Yun Set is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions to Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics as notable subfields.

The scientist's work covers various topics within photonics and optical technologies. These include:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators

Sze Yun Set has an extensive publication record, contributing to multiple high-profile venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Optics Express

Their recent papers illustrate ongoing research interests, with selected works as follows:

  • "On-Chip Optical Gas Sensors Based on Group-IV Materials," 2020, ACS Photonics
  • "Fiber-based dynamically tunable Lyot filter for dual-wavelength and tunable single-wavelength mode-locking of fiber lasers," 2020, Optics Express
  • "Towards an ultrafast 3D imaging scanning LiDAR system: a review," 2024, Photonics Research
  • "Hyperuniform Disordered Solids with Morphology Engineering," 2023, Laser & Photonics Review
  • "2.5 GHz harmonic mode locking from a femtosecond Yb-doped fiber laser with high fundamental repetition rate," 2021, Optics Letters

The scientist collaborates regularly with coauthors including Shinji Yamashita, Takuma Shirahata, Lei Jin, Maolin Dai, and Bowen Liu. The frequency of these collaborations reflects a sustained engagement within their research community.

Awards include being named an OSA Fellow in 2020 for contributions involving carbon nanotube mode-locked lasers, nano-carbon photonics, and work related to the commercialization of ultrafast optics technologies.

Best Publications

  • Laser mode locking using a saturable absorber incorporating carbon nanotubes

    S.Y. Set;H. Yaguchi;Y. Tanaka;M. Jablonski

  • Saturable absorbers incorporating carbon nanotubes directly synthesized onto substrates and fibers and their application to mode-locked fiber lasers

    S Yamashita;Y Inoue;S Maruyama;Y Murakami

  • Ultrafast fiber pulsed lasers incorporating carbon nanotubes

    S.Y. Set;H. Yaguchi;Y. Tanaka;M. Jablonski

  • Carbon nanotube mode lockers with enhanced nonlinearity via evanescent field interaction in D-shaped fibers.

    Yong-Won Song;Shinji Yamashita;Chee S. Goh;Sze Y. Set

  • Mode-locked fiber lasers based on a saturable absorber incorporating carbon nanotubes

    S.Y. Set;H. Yaguchi;Y. Tanaka;M. Jablonski

  • Wavelength tuning of fiber Bragg gratings over 90 nm using a simple tuning package

    C.S. Goh;M.R. Mokhtar;S.A. Butler;S.Y. Set

  • 5-GHz pulsed fiber Fabry-Pe/spl acute/rot laser mode-locked using carbon nanotubes

    S. Yamashita;Y. Inoue;K. Hsu;T. Kotake

  • Polarization insensitive all-fiber mode-lockers functioned by carbon nanotubes deposited onto tapered fibers

    Yong-Won Song;Keiyo Morimune;Sze Y. Set;Shinji Yamashita

  • On-Chip Optical Gas Sensors Based on Group-IV Materials

    Jingwen Wu;Jingwen Wu;Gongcheng Yue;Gongcheng Yue;Weicheng Chen;Weicheng Chen;Zhengkun Xing;Zhengkun Xing

  • Solid-state Er:Yb:glass laser mode-locked by using single-wall carbon nanotube thin film

    Kok Hann Fong;Kazuro Kikuchi;Chee S. Goh;Sze Y. Set

  • Fibre Bragg grating compression-tuned over 110 nm

    M.R. Mokhtar;C.S. Goh;S.A. Butler;S.Y. Set

  • In-situ monitoring of optical deposition of carbon nanotubes onto fiber end

    Ken Kashiwagi;Shinji Yamashita;Sze Yun Set

  • Highly efficient arbitrary wavelength conversion within entire C-band based on nondegenerate fiber four-wave mixing

    T. Tanemura;C.S. Goh;K. Kikuchi;S.Y. Set

  • Passively mode-locked lasers with 17.2-GHz fundamental-mode repetition rate pulsed by carbon nanotubes

    Yong-Won Song;Shinji Yamashita;Chee S. Goh;Sze Y. Set

  • Carbon-nanotube-based passively Q-switched fiber laser for high energy pulse generation

    H.H. Liu;K.K. Chow;S. Yamashita;S.Y. Set

  • Photonic chirped radio-frequency generator with ultra-fast sweeping rate and ultra-wide sweeping range.

    Jhih Min Wun;Chia Chien Wei;Jyehong Chen;Chee Seong Goh

  • Generation of stretched pulses and dissipative solitons at 2 μm from an all-fiber mode-locked laser using carbon nanotube saturable absorbers

    Yu Wang;Shaif-ul Alam;Elena D. Obraztsova;Anatoly S. Pozharov

  • 1300-nm pulsed fiber lasers mode-locked by purified carbon nanotubes

    Yong-Won Song;S.Y. Set;S. Yamashita;C.S. Goh

  • Widely tunable optical filters based on fiber Bragg gratings

    C.S. Goh;S.Y. Set;K. Kikuchi

  • Optical pulse lasers

    Mark Kenneth Jablonski;Sze Yun Set;Yuichi Tanaka

  • Experimental study on depolarized GAWBS spectrum for optomechanical sensing of liquids outside standard fibers.

    Neisei Hayashi;Yosuke Mizuno;Kentaro Nakamura;Sze Yun Set

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinji Yamashita
Shinji Yamashita University of Tokyo
Kazuro Kikuchi
Kazuro Kikuchi National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education
Morten Ibsen
Morten Ibsen University of Southampton
Richard Ian Laming
Richard Ian Laming Optoscribe Ltd.
Shigeo Maruyama
Shigeo Maruyama University of Tokyo
Hiromichi Kataura
Hiromichi Kataura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Takasumi Tanabe
Takasumi Tanabe Keio University
Esko I. Kauppinen
Esko I. Kauppinen Aalto University
Madoka Tokumoto
Madoka Tokumoto National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Mitsuru Takenaka
Mitsuru Takenaka University of Tokyo

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