Azooz, S.M. and Ahmad, F. and Ahmad, Harith and Harun, Sulaiman Wadi and Hamida, B.A. and Khan, S. and Halder, A. and Paul, M.C. and Pal, M. and Bhadra, S.K. (2015) Mode-locked 2 mu m fiber laser with a multi-walled carbon nanotube as a saturable absorber. Chinese Optics Letters, 13 (3). p. 4. ISSN 1671-7694, DOI https://doi.org/10.3788/col201513.030602.
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Abstract
We propose and demonstrate a passively mode-locked fiber laser operating at 1951.8 nm using a commercial thulium-doped fiber (TDF) laser, a homemade double-clad thulium-ytterbium co-doped fiber (TYDF) as the gain media, and a multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) based saturable absorber (SA). We prepare the MWCNT composite by mixing a homogeneous solution of MWCNTs with a diluted polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) polymer solution and then drying it at room temperature to form a film. The film is placed between two fiber connectors as a SA before it is integrated into a laser ring cavity. The cavity consists of a 2 m long TDF pumped by a 800 nm laser diode and a 15 m long homemade TYDF pumped by a 905 nm multimode laser diode. A stable mode-locking pulse with a repetition rate of 34.6 MHz and a pulse width of 10.79 ps is obtained when the 905 nm multimode pump power reaches 1.8-2.2 W, while the single-mode 800 nm pump power is fixed at 141.5 mW at all times. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported mode-locked fiber laser using a MWCNT-based SA.
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| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Mr Jenal S |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2015 01:57 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2018 04:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/13792 |
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