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Q-switching pulse generation using black phosphorus tape saturable absorber

HARITH AHMAD1, NOR AHYA HASSAN1, SITI NABILA AIDIT1, SHOK ING OOI1, SULAIMAN WADI HARUN2, ZIAN CHEAK TIU2,*

Affiliation

  1. Photonics Research Center, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract

Passive Q-switched Erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) and Ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL) incorporating black phosphorus (BP) tape as saturable absorber is proposed and practically demonstrated. A clean tape is used to mechanically exfoliate few layers BP from 99.995% purity BP crystal. The BP tape is cut into a small piece and sandwiched between two standard FC/PC fiber ferrule end surfaces with index matching gel. Q-switching operation of EDFL and YDFL is occurred between pump power range of 35.7 mW to 115.5 mW and 115.2 mW to 188.0 mW respectively..

Keywords

Q-switched, Black phosphorus, Fiber laser.

Citation

HARITH AHMAD, NOR AHYA HASSAN, SITI NABILA AIDIT, SHOK ING OOI, SULAIMAN WADI HARUN, ZIAN CHEAK TIU, Q-switching pulse generation using black phosphorus tape saturable absorber, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 11, 1-2, January-February 2017, pp.1-6 (2017).

Submitted at: March 25, 2017

Accepted at: Feb. 10, 2017