Passively Q-switching fiber lasers using acetone solution as a saturable absorber

Luoxin Wang; Hongdong Zhao; Hongli Dai

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.8.086107

13 August 2019 Passively Q-switching fiber lasers using acetone solution as a saturable absorber

Luoxin Wang, Hongdong Zhao, Hongli Dai

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 8, 086107 (August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.8.086107

Abstract

Organic materials are attracting attention for their potential applications due to their large third-order optical nonlinearities. A passive fiber Q-switching laser has been demonstrated based on an erbium/ytterbium codoped amplifier and an acetone solution saturable absorber (SA). When pump power was increased from 120 to 155 mW, the repetition rate increased from 5.68 to 16.67 kHz, while the pulse width decreased from 24.1 to 15 μs. These results indicate that acetone solution can be used as an effective SA for pulsed lasers.

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Luoxin Wang, Hongdong Zhao, and Hongli Dai "Passively Q-switching fiber lasers using acetone solution as a saturable absorber," Optical Engineering 58(8), 086107 (13 August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.8.086107

Received: 14 April 2019; Accepted: 2 July 2019; Published: 13 August 2019

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