Mode-locked fiber laser with a manganese-doped cadmium selenide saturable absorber
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Abstract
We demonstrate the generation of mode-locked pulses in an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) by using a new manganese-doped cadmium selenide quantum-dots-based saturable absorber. The laser produces a soliton pulse train operating at 1561.1 nm with a repetition rate of 1 MHz, as the pump power is varied from 113 to 250 mW. At the maximum pump power, we obtain the pulse duration of 459 ns with a signal-to-noise ratio of 50 dB.
Keywords
Cadmium, Fiber lasers, Locks (fasteners), Manganese, Optical pumping, Optical waveguides, Pulse repetition rate, Pumping (laser), Q switched lasers, Quantum dot lasers, Saturable absorbers, Semiconductor quantum dots, Signal to noise ratio
Divisions
fac_eng,PHYSICS
Funders
Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/ 2015/SG02/UITM/03/3)
Publication Title
Chinese Optics Letters
Volume
15
Issue
7
Publisher
Optical Society of America