Mode-locked Thulium Ytterbium co-Doped Fiber Laser with Graphene Saturable Absorber

Authors

  • Ibrahim M. Babar
  • Mukul C. Paul 2Fiber Optics and Photonics Division, CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India
  • Shyamal Das Fiber Optics and Photonics Division, CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India
  • Anirban Dhar Fiber Optics and Photonics Division, CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India
  • Harith Ahmad University of Malaya
  • Sulaiman Wadi Harun University of Malaya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v8i4.680

Abstract

A passively mode-locked Thulium Ytterbium co-doped fiber laser (TYDFL) is demonstrated using a graphene polyvinyl alcohol saturable absorber as the mode-locker. With 980 nm multimode pumping, the laser operates at 1942.95 nm with repetition rate of 11.76 MHz. The pulse width is calculated to be around 52.85 ps. The maximum pulse energy of 1190.5 pJ is achieved at pump power of 1750 mW.

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2016-12-31

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I. M. Babar, M. C. Paul, S. Das, A. Dhar, H. Ahmad, and S. W. Harun, “Mode-locked Thulium Ytterbium co-Doped Fiber Laser with Graphene Saturable Absorber”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 8, no. 4, pp. pp. 104–106, Dec. 2016.

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Vol. 8 No. 4 (2016)

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