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Femtosecond mode‐locked erbium‐doped fibre laser with Alq3 saturable absorber.

Authors :
Salam, Sameer
Al‐Masoodi, Ahmed H.H.
Wang, Pengfei
Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
Source :
IET Optoelectronics (Wiley-Blackwell). Oct2020, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p234-241. 8p.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

The authors experimentally demonstrated the generation of mode‐locked pulses from all‐fibre erbium‐doped fibre laser cavity by using organic material, Alq3, as a saturable absorber (SA). The SA film was integrated into a ring fibre laser cavity to act as a mode‐locker. A mode‐locking operation was achieved in three different experiments with pulse width/repetition rate of 1.26 ps/3.36 MHz, 970 fs/3.36 MHz and 820 fs/4.9 MHz by using cavity length/optical coupler (OC) of 61.5 m/80:20 OC, 61.5 m /95:5 OC and 42 m/80:20 OC, respectively. All the experiments produced a soliton and a very stable mode‐locking operation at central wavelength of ∼1561 nm. The experiments confirmed that organic material can readily be used as SA for a mode‐locked operation in the 1.5 μm region. This demonstration might shed new insights into the potentials and techniques for developing ultrafast fibre lasers by using organic materials as SAs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
17518768
Volume :
14
Issue :
5
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
IET Optoelectronics (Wiley-Blackwell)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
148084649
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-opt.2019.0171