Passively Q-switched Yb- and Sm-doped fiber laser at 1064 nm

Gautam Das; Zachary J. Chaboyer; Joseph E. Navratil; Robert A. Drainville

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2014.08.063

Passively Q-switched Yb- and Sm-doped fiber laser at 1064 nm

Gautam Das^*, Zachary J. Chaboyer, Joseph E. Navratil, Robert A. Drainville

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The article describes a simple method of developing a Q-switched fiber laser utilizing the passive Q-switching technique. An ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber was used as the gain medium and a small length of samarium-doped fiber as a saturable absorber to obtain passive Q-switching operation. The laser was capable of operating at continuous wave (CW), Q-switched mode locked, and Q-switched regimes under suitable conditions. Further, the article presented, for the first time, properties of the laser with the orientation of the polarization controller plates inside the cavity. The all fiber laser produces very stable pulses with different energy and repetition rates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	258-264
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	334
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2014.08.063
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Fiber laser
Passive Q-switching
Q-switched fiber laser
Q-switched mode-locked pulse
Saturable absorber
Ytterbium-doped fiber

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