Title :
A single-walled carbon nanotube wall paper as an absorber for simultaneously achieving passively mode-locked and Q-switched Yb-doped fiber lasers
Author :
Xiaohui Li ; Yonggang Wang ; Yishan Wang ; Qijie Wang ; Wei Zhao ; Yongzhe Zhang ; Xia Ya ; Ying Zhang
Author_Institution :
Div. of Microelectron., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
We demonstrate a fiber ring laser based on a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) wall paper absorber. It is found that the proposed Yb-doped fiber laser can either be operated in the mode-locked states or Q-switched states. First, SWCNT wall paper acts as a mode locker when the pump power is below 80 mW. Self-started mode locking can be obtained when the pump power is about 47 mW. The proposed Yb-doped mode-locked fiber lasers can be operated in the dissipative soliton regime that the spectra have a narrow peak. Second, SWCNT wall paper acts as a Q switcher when the pump power is above 80 mW. The Yb-doped fiber laser can work in the Q-switched states at higher pump power which is quite different from the conventional pulse fiber lasers. The repetition rate increases from 30 kHz to 50 kHz and the pulse duration decreases from 2.7 μs to 1 μs with the increase of pump power. This is due to the SWCNT wall paper induced loss in the cavity which leads to Q-switched state at higher pump powers. The combination of the Q-switching and mode-locking in one fiber laser have potential application in the fields that require different pulse fiber lasers.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; solitons; ytterbium; Q-switched ytterbium-doped fiber lasers; SWCNT wall paper absorber; Yb; dissipative soliton regime; fiber ring laser; mode-locked states; passively mode-locked fiber lasers; pulse fiber lasers; self-started mode locking; single-walled carbon nanotube wall paper; Carbon nanotubes; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber dispersion; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC), 2013 IEEE 5th International
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4840-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2159-3523
DOI :
10.1109/INEC.2013.6465978