Passively harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser with a gold nanofilm saturable absorber

We demonstrate a 1.5 GHz harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser by incorporating gold nanofilm as a saturable absorber (SA). The high-quality gold nanofilm SA fabricated by the physical vapor deposition method possesses a high modulation depth of 12.9% and a low saturation intensity of 1.69 M...

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Published in:Optical materials express 2024-04, Vol.14 (4), p.983
Main Authors: Lv, Changjian, Meng, Fanchao, Zhang, Tianqi, Wang, Junjie, Yan, Qi, Jia, Zhixu, Qin, Weiping, Qin, Guanshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absorbers
Doped fibers
Erbium
Fiber lasers
Gold
Laser mode locking
Nanomaterials
Physical vapor deposition
Pulse duration
Repetition
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Summary:We demonstrate a 1.5 GHz harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser by incorporating gold nanofilm as a saturable absorber (SA). The high-quality gold nanofilm SA fabricated by the physical vapor deposition method possesses a high modulation depth of 12.9% and a low saturation intensity of 1.69 MW/cm 2 at 1.56 µm, facilitating the generation of harmonic mode-locking. The fundamental mode-locked operation was obtained at 1564.7 nm, with a pulse duration of 586 fs and a repetition rate of 34.235 MHz. At the pump power of 610 mW, 44th-order harmonic mode-locking with a repetition rate of 1.506 GHz was achieved, which is the highest yet reported in mode-locked fiber lasers using gold nanomaterials as SAs. Moreover, the gold nanofilm-based harmonic mode-locked fiber laser shows relatively high signal-to-noise ratios, high output power, and good stability. These results highlight the advantage of the gold nanofilm-based SA in realizing high repetition rate laser sources.
ISSN:2159-3930
2159-3930
DOI:10.1364/OME.521096