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Zinc-oxide/PDMS-clad tapered fiber saturable absorber for passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser |
| F D Muhammad1,?, S A S Husin1, E K Ng2, K Y Lau3, C A C Abdullah1, and M A Mahdi2 |
1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia;
2 Wireless and Photonics Networks Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia;
3 Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Tietotie 3, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland |
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Abstract We propose and demonstrate a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) based on zinc-oxide/polydimethylsiloxane (ZnO/PDMS) saturable absorber (SA) that evanescently interacts with the light on a tapered fiber. The ZnO/PDMS composite is coated on the whole surface of the tapered fiber to guarantee the maximum efficiency of the SA device, with a measured insertion loss of 0.87 dB and a modulation depth of 6.4%. The proposed laser can generate soliton mode-locking operation at a threshold power of 33.07 mW. The generated output pulse yields a repetition rate and pulse width of 9.77 MHz and 1.03 ps, respectively. These results indicate that the proposed ZnO/PDMS-clad tapered fiber could be useful as an efficient, compatible, and low-cost SA device for ultrafast laser applications.
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Received: 01 December 2020
Revised: 01 December 2020
Accepted manuscript online: 30 December 2020
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PACS:
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42.55.Wd
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(Fiber lasers)
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42.60.Fc
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(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)
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| Fund: Project supported by the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia (MOHE) (Grant No. FRGS/1/2019/STG02/UPM/02/4). |
Corresponding Authors:
F D Muhammad
E-mail: farahdiana@upm.edu.my
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Cite this article:
F D Muhammad, S A S Husin, E K Ng, K Y Lau, C A C Abdullah, and M A Mahdi Zinc-oxide/PDMS-clad tapered fiber saturable absorber for passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 054204
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