Passively Q-switched fibre laser utilizing erbium-doped fibre saturable absorber for operation in C-band region

Rahman, Mohd Fauzi Ab and Latiff, Anas Abdul and Rusdi, Muhammad Farid Mohd and Dimyati, Kaharudin and Harun, Sulaiman Wadi (2019) Passively Q-switched fibre laser utilizing erbium-doped fibre saturable absorber for operation in C-band region. Journal of Modern Optics, 66 (2). pp. 235-239. ISSN 0950-0340, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1512674.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1512674

Abstract

In this paper, a stable and robust all-fibre passively Q-switched erbium-doped fibre laser (EDFL) emitting at 1558 nm is described. The proposed laser utilizes an 11 cm long erbium-doped fibre as saturable absorber (SA). The fibre SA features a linear optical absorption of about 13 dB in the Q-switched EDFL operating regime. By elevating the input pump power from the threshold of 60 mW to the maximum available power of 142 mW, a pulse train with a maximum repetition rate of 86 kHz, minimum pulse width of 3.39 µs, maximum average output power of 10.5 mW, maximum pulse energy of 122 nJ and maximum peak power of 36 mW are obtained. The signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the spectrum is measured to be around 70 dB. This fibre SA is simple, reliable, compact and alignment free. Thus it is suitable for making a portable pulse laser source.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Institut Pengurusan dan Pemantauan Penyelidikan, Universiti Malaya [grant number FG006-17AFR]
Uncontrolled Keywords: Fibre lasers; fibre saturable absorber; passive saturable absorber; Q-switching operation
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2019 08:44
Last Modified: 15 Jan 2019 08:44
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/20010

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