Dynamic operation of passive mode-locked fiber laser with carbon nanotubes-based saturable absorber

Author

Chiu, Jin-Chen ; Chang, Chia-Ming ; Lin, Shau-Ching ; Hsieh, Bi-Zen ; Yeh, Chao-Yung ; Lin, Jiang-Jen ; Cheng, Wood-Hi

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

7-11 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

669

Lastpage

670

Abstract

Measurement and modeling of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) based saturable absorber (SA) on stabilizing and shortening mode-locked fiber lasers are presented. The concentration and thickness effect of SWCNTs SA on stabilizing and shortening passive mode-locked pulse is investigated experimentally. Haus master equation is applied to simulate the pulse characteristics to understand the dynamic operation of passive mode-locked fiber lasers. The simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental results for the spectral bandwidth and pulse width depended on the thickness and concentration of SWCNTs SA. A limit of spectral bandwidth of 6.04 nm and pulse width of 440 fs in passive mode locking lasers is obtained. A comprehensively study of pulse characteristics of passive mode-locked fiber lasers provides a guide to fabricate an effective SWCNTs SA for use in many carbon nanotubes based photonics devices.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; master equation; optical saturable absorption; C; Haus master equation; passive mode-locked fiber laser; single-walled carbon nanotube-based saturable absorber; spectral bandwidth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

ISSN

-

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5368-9

Electronic_ISBN

-

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699065

Filename

5699065