High Power Q-Switched Thulium Doped Fibre Laser using Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composite Saturable Absorber

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作者
Chernysheva, Maria [1 ]
Mou, Chengbo [1 ,2 ]
Arif, Raz [1 ,3 ]
AlAraimi, Mohammed [1 ,4 ]
Ruemmeli, Mark [5 ]
Turitsyn, Sergei [1 ,6 ]
Rozhin, Aleksey [1 ]
机构
[1] Aston Univ, AIPT, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, W Midlands, England
[2] Shanghai Univ, Key Lab Specialty Fiber Opt & Opt Access Network, Shanghai 200072, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Sulaimani, Dept Phys, Fac Sci, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Regio, Iraq
[4] Al Musanna Coll Technol, Engn Dept, Muladdah Musanna 314, Oman
[5] Leibniz Inst Solid State & Mat Res, IFW, Helmholtzstr 20, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
[6] Novosibirsk State Univ, 2 Pirogova Str, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
MU-M; LOOP-MIRROR; HIGH-ENERGY; ABSORPTION; BAND; CONSTRAINTS; OSCILLATOR; OPERATION; STATE;
D O I
10.1038/srep24220
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
We have proposed and demonstrated a Q-switched Thulium doped fibre laser (TDFL) with a 'Yin-Yang' all-fibre cavity scheme based on a combination of nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) and nonlinear amplified loop mirror (NALM). Unidirectional lasing operation has been achieved without any intracavity isolator. By using a carbon nanotube polymer composite based saturable absorber (SA), we demonstrated the laser output power of similar to 197 mW and pulse energy of 1.7 mu J. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power from a nanotube polymer composite SA based Q-switched Thulium doped fibre laser.
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