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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ahmed, M.H.M.
• Mohd Yusoff, N.
• Che Abdullah, C.A.
• Alresheedi, M.T.
• Rosli, N.S.
• Talib, Z.A.
• Mahdi, M.A.

Titel

Nanosized titanium dioxide saturable absorber for soliton mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser

Ist Teil von

• Results in physics, 2021-12, Vol.31, p.104930, Article 104930

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Nanosized titanium dioxide (TiO2) composite is spin-coated on microfiber as a saturable absorber.•Wide operating range for fundamental pulse generation without any harmonic effects.•TiO2-based saturable absorber has large optical damage threshold. We demonstrate the potential of nanosized titanium dioxide (TiO2) in forming ultrashort pulses using a ring cavity thulium-doped fiber laser. A TiO2 polymer composite was transferred onto a microfiber through a spin coating technique to act as a light-absorbing material, saturable absorber (SA). The nonlinear transmission characteristics of this TiO2-SA exhibited 3.8% modulation depth and 17 MW/cm2 saturation intensity at 1.92 µm wavelength. At 1587 mW pump power, the central wavelength, average output power, pulse duration, peak power, and pulse energy were 1925.6 nm, 126.8 mW, 1.5 ps, 6.45 kW, and 11 nJ, respectively. The fabricated TiO2-SA displayed a wide pump power range of fundamental mode-locking at 11.53 MHz without any sign of laser-induced damage threshold or pulse breaking effect. This work has shown the potential use of nanosized TiO2-SA for fabricating broadband nonlinear photonic devices.