• DocumentCode
    733222
  • Title

    Nonstoichiometric Si1−xGex based tunable saturable absorber for mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser

  • Author

    Chi-Cheng Yang ; Yung-Hsiang Lin ; Gong-Ru Lin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Free-standing thin-film flexible Si1-xGex saturable absorber with Si/Ge composition-ratio dependent saturable absorbance is demonstrated to passively mode-lock the erbium-doped fiber laser for delivering a pulsewidth of 330 fs at a modulation depth of 16%.
  • Keywords
    Ge-Si alloys; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical modulation; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor materials; semiconductor thin films; Si1-xGex; composition-ratio dependent saturable absorbance; free-standing thin-film flexible saturable absorber; modulation depth; nonstoichiometric Si1-xGex based tunable saturable absorber; passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser; pulsewidth; time 330 fs; Absorption; Graphene; Modulation; Optical device fabrication; Optical films; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183659