Mode-locked soliton erbium-doped fiber laser using a single-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in polyethylene oxide thin film saturable absorber

Ahmad, F. and Harun, Sulaiman Wadi and Nor, Roslan Md and Zulkepely, N.R. and Muhammad, F.D. and Arof, Hamzah and Ahmad, Harith (2014) Mode-locked soliton erbium-doped fiber laser using a single-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in polyethylene oxide thin film saturable absorber. Journal of Modern Optics, 61 (6). pp. 541-545. ISSN 0950-0340, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2014.899644.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2014.899644

Abstract

We demonstrate a simple, compact, and low cost mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) using a single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) embedded in polyethylene oxide (PEO) thin film as a passive saturable absorber (SA). The film with a thickness of 50 μm was fabricated using a prepared homogeneous SWCNT solution with 0.1% loading percentage, which was mixed with a diluted PEO solution and casted onto a glass Petri dish to form a thin film by evaporation technique. The film is sandwiched between two fiber connectors to construct a SA, which is then integrated in an EDFL cavity to generate a self-started stable soliton pulses operating at 1558 nm. The soliton pulse starts to lase at pump power threshold of 17.6 mW with a repetition rate of 50 MHz, pulse width of 0.67 ps, average output power of 0.158 mW, pulse energy of 3.16 pJ, and peak power of 4.43 W.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords: Single-walled carbon nanotubes; Mode-locking; Passive saturable absorber
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Science > Department of Physics
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2015 02:35
Last Modified: 09 Oct 2018 04:42
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/14315

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