Passive Q-Switching of a Cladding Pumped Erbium-Ytterbium Co-Doped Fiber Laser Induced by the Kerr Effect

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作者
Chi, Mingzhi [1 ]
Lip, Zhan Hong [2 ]
Rosol, Ahmad Haziq A. [3 ]
Cheng, Xiau San [2 ]
Tiu, Zian Cheak [4 ]
Yasin, Moh [5 ]
Harun, Sulaiman Wadi [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Malaya, Dept Elect Engn, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
[2] UOW Malaysia, KDU Univ Coll, Sch Engn, Shah Alam 40150, Selangor, Malaysia
[3] Univ Teknol Malaysia, Malaysia Japan Int Inst Technol MJIIT, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, Kuala Lumpur 54100, Malaysia
[4] INTI Int Univ, Fac Engn & Quant Surveying, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
[5] Airlangga Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Phys, Surabaya, Indonesia
关键词
Q-switching; Kerr effect; cladding pumping; Erbium-Ytterbium co-doped fiber; SATURABLE ABSORBER;
D O I
10.1007/s10946-023-10166-2
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
In this letter, we propose a passively Q-switched all-fiber laser and demonstrate how to utilize a multimode double-clad Erbium-Ytterbium co-doped fiber as an active medium. The Q-switching is obtained based on the Kerr effect of multimode interference, which induced intensity modulation inside the linear cavity laser. Stable Q-switched pulses are obtained at 1552.3 nm with the repetition rate varying from 50.3 to 222.2 kHz, when the pump power is changed in the range from 1.00 to 3.09 W. We record the minimum pulse width and the maximum pulse energy at 2.1 mu s and 2.7 mu J, respectively, at a pump power of 2.42 W. This proves a new modulation mechanism for obtaining high energy pulses based on all-fiber linear cavity.
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页数:5
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