Q-switched ytterbium-doped fiber laser with zinc oxide based saturable absorber

Ahmad, Harith and Salim, M.A.M. and Ismail, Mohammad Faizal and Harun, Sulaiman Wadi (2016) Q-switched ytterbium-doped fiber laser with zinc oxide based saturable absorber. Laser Physics, 26 (11). p. 115107. ISSN 1054-660X, DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1054-660X/26/11/115107.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1054-660X/26/11/115107

Abstract

A Q-switched ytterbium doped fiber laser (YDFL) with a ZnO saturable absorber (SA) is used to demonstrate the generation of pulses in the 1 micron region. The system has a Q-switching threshold of approximately 115.2 mW, and can generate pulses with a 3.0 µs full-width at half maximum as well as a peak-to-pedestal ratio of 53.0 dB. No spectral modulations are observed, indicating a highly stable system. The pulse output of the proposed system has repetition rates and pulse widths of approximately 50 kHz and 1.6 µs, as well as an average output power of 0.14 mW and a pulse energy of 2.8 nJ at its highest pump power of 196 mW. This is the first time, to the authors' knowledge, that a ZnO based SA has been used to generate pulses in the 1 micron region with a YDFL.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Universiti Malaya and Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia by the research grants LRGS (2015) NGOD / UM / KPT, GA010-2014 (ULUNG) and RU010/2016
Uncontrolled Keywords: Q-switched; Saturable absorber; Ytterbium-doped fiber laser; Zinc oxide
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Science
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 08 Sep 2017 11:33
Last Modified: 08 Apr 2019 06:22
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/17782

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