Q-switched fiber laser employing a passive polarization-maintaining thulium-doped fiber as a saturable absorber

Al-Alimi, A.W. and Mohd Yusoff, N. and Cholan, N. A. and Alresheedi, M. T. and Abas, A. F. and Talib, Z. A. and Mahdi, M. A. (2022) Q-switched fiber laser employing a passive polarization-maintaining thulium-doped fiber as a saturable absorber. Results in Physics, 33. pp. 1-8. ISSN 2211-3797

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Abstract

We present the application of polarization-maintaining thulium-doped fiber (PM-TDF) as a saturable absorber in an erbium-ytterbium-doped fiber laser. A commercial erbium-ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier (EYDFA) was employed in a ring cavity laser configuration with a sub-cavity that allowed bidirectional light propagation through PM-TDF. The Q-switched pulse operation was attained at 1563 nm with EYDFA output power of 720 – 980 mW. At maximum output power, the shortest pulse width of 1.4 µs was attained at 29.4 kHz repetition rate, with up to 41.7 mW of average output power and 1.44 µJ of pulse energy. The proposed fiber laser architecture demonstrated good stability in the time and frequency domains, thus recognizing its potential for applications that require high damage threshold saturable absorber devices.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Erbium-ytterbium-doped fiber laser; thulium-doped fiber; Q-switched pulse; saturable absorption medium
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > TA213-215 Engineering machinery, tools, and implements
Divisions:	Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering > Department of Electronic Enngineering
Depositing User:	Mr. Abdul Rahim Mat Radzuan
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2022 02:32
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2022 02:32
URI:	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/6889

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