Broadband tuning in a passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber laser (EDFL) via multi wall carbon nanotubes/polyvinyl alcohol (MWCNT/PVA) saturable absorber

• Main Authors: Ahmad, H., Hassan, S.N.M., Ahmad, F., Zulkifli, Mohd Zamani, Harun, S.W.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: QC Physics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/84046/1/ahmad2016-3.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/84046/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030401815303357

An MWCNT/PVA-based Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) that uses a tunable bandpass filter (TBPF) as the wavelength tuning and filtering mechanism to achieve a broadband tuning range is proposed and demonstrated. The tuning range of the generated Q-switched pulses covered a wide wavelength r...