High power Q-switched thulium doped fibre laser using carbon nanotube polymer composite saturable absorber

Abstract

We have proposed and demonstrated a Q-switched Thulium doped bre laser (TDFL) with a ‘Yin-Yang’ all- bre cavity scheme based on a combination of nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) and nonlinear ampli ed loop mirror (NALM). Unidirectional lasing operation has been achieved without any intracavity isolator. By using a carbon nanotube polymer composite based saturable absorber (SA), we demonstrated the laser output power of ~197 mW and pulse energy of 1.7 μJ. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power from a nanotube polymer composite SA based Q-switched Thulium doped bre laser.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24220
Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.17036/d51ee321-9303-4c67-ab8c-cf22ed37bedd
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
Aston University (General)
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Uncontrolled Keywords: fibre lasers,ultrafast lasers,General
Publication ISSN: 2045-2322
Last Modified: 12 Nov 2024 08:09
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2016 08:55
Full Text Link: http://www.natu ... icles/srep24220
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2016-04-11
Accepted Date: 2015-12-14
Submitted Date: 2015-07-13
Authors: Chernysheva, Maria
Mou, Chengbo
Arif, Raz
Al Araimi, Mohammed
Rummeli, Mark
Turitsyn, Sergei (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-0101-3834)
Rozhin, Aleksey (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-2271-8227)

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