Title :
Passively Q-switching of Erbium-doped fiber laser using ferrite as saturable absorber
Author :
Xuekun Bai;Jun Yuan;Shaofei Wang;Dengfeng Fan;Jie Gu;Yi Huang;Yunhe Zhao;Qianwu Zhang;Shengli Pu;Xianglong Zeng
Author_Institution :
The Key Lab of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Network, Shanghai University, 200072 Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We report on passive Q-switching of a erbium-doped fiber laser with ferrite saturable absorber achieving for the first time short (~3.2 μs) pulse durations with a low threshold pump power (~15 mW).
Keywords :
"Optical fibers","Optical pumping","Optical pulses","Optical fiber dispersion","Ferrites","Optical films"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375964