Soliton mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser by using Alq3 saturable absorber
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
This paper demonstrated a mode-locked fiber laser based on Alq3 as passive saturable absorber (SA) in a simple all-fiber Erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) cavity. By incorporating Alq3 into the fiber laser cavity, a stable mode-locked pulsing was achieved. The laser pulses have a pulse width of 1.6 ps with a soliton spectrum centered at 1561.5 nm. The pulses train exhibits a very stable output with a high signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 41.5 dB. The results suggest that Alq3 is a promising nonlinear optical material, which could be as an ultra-fast mode-locker. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of Alq3 as a mode-locker in an EDFL setup. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords
Saturable Absorber, Erbium-Doped Fiber, Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
Publication Title
Optics & Laser Technology
Divisions
fac_eng
Funders
Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University in Baghdad, Iraq and Airlangga University , Indonesia (under Airlangga Mandate Research Grant (2019)),Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education under World Class University (WCU) program managed by Institut Teknologi Bandung
Volume
123
Publisher
Elsevier