Passive mode locking in erbium-doped fibre laser by carbon nanotubes

Author

Mou, Chengbo ; Rozhin, Aleksey ; Sergeyev, Sergey ; Turistyn, Sergei

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper we report results of the experiments on mode-locked soliton fibre laser using the following standard components: ~1m of highly doped erbium fibre (Liekki Er80-8/125) serves as the gain medium with nominal absorption of 80 dB/m at 1530 nm; a 976 nm laser diode providing up to ~310mW power is used to pump the laser via a 980/1550 wavelength division multiplexing; an isolator is employed to ensure single direction oscillation; SMF-28 is used to create necessary amount of anomalous dispersion to form soliton pulse making the total cavity length around 7.83 m; the CNT-polyvinyl alcohol polymer saturable absorber sandwiched in the FC/PC connector is used as a mode-locker device.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; erbium; laser mode locking; optical fibre amplifiers; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; anomalous dispersion; carbon nanotubes; erbium-doped fibre laser; gain medium; isolator; laser diode; mode-locked soliton fibre laser; nominal absorption; passive mode locking; polyvinyl alcohol polymer saturable absorber; single direction oscillation; soliton pulse; wavelength division multiplexing; Photonics; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943665

Filename

5943665