Mode-locked fiber laser with a manganese-doped cadmium selenide saturable absorber

• Main Authors: Rosol, Ahmad Haziq Aiman, Rahman, Husna Abdul, Ismail, Ezzatul Irradah, Jusoh, Zulzilawati, Latiff, Anas Abdul, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Published: Optical Society of America 2017
• Subjects: QC Physics; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/19726/; https://doi.org/10.3788/COL201715.071405

We demonstrate the generation of mode-locked pulses in an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) by using a new manganese-doped cadmium selenide quantum-dots-based saturable absorber. The laser produces a soliton pulse train operating at 1561.1 nm with a repetition rate of 1 MHz, as the pump power is varie...