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Experimental investigation on Q-switching and Q-switched mode-locking operation in gold nanorods-based erbium-doped fiber laser
- Source :
- Chinese Optics Letters. 13:081401-81405
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, 2015.
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Abstract
- We report on the generation of Q-switched and Q-switched mode-locked (QML) pulses in an erbium-doped fiber ring laser by using a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) -based gold nanorod (GNR) saturable absorber (SA). The PVA-based GNR SA has a modulation depth of ∼4.8% and a non-saturable loss of ∼26.9% at 1.5 μm. A Q-switched pulse train with a repetition rate varying from 18.70 to 39.85 kHz and a QML pulse train with an envelope repetition rate tuning from 20.31 to 31.50 kHz are obtained. Moreover, the lasing wavelengths of the Q-switched pulses can be flexibly tuned by introducing a narrow bandwidth, tunable filter into the laser cavity. The results demonstrate that the GNRs exhibit good optical performance and can find a wide range of applications in the field of laser technology.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
business.industry
Saturable absorption
Q-switching
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
law.invention
Optics
Mode-locking
law
Optical cavity
Fiber laser
Optoelectronics
Pulse wave
Nanorod
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business
Lasing threshold
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Details
- ISSN :
- 16717694
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chinese Optics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........28f3ca438b480deb46811ab28718b2eb