Passively Q-switched Ytterbium doped fiber laser with mechanically exfoliated MoS2 saturable absorber

• Main Authors: Al-Masoodi, Ahmed Hasan Hamood, Ahmed, Mahmoud Hazzaa M., Latiff, Anas Abdul, Arof, Hamzah, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Verlag (Germany) 2017
• Subjects: QC Physics; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/19932/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-016-0951-5

A passively Q-switched Ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL) based on MoS2 saturable absorber (SA) is demonstrated. A few layers of MoS2 are mechanically exfoliated from a natural MoS2 crystal using a scotch tape and the resulting SA is sandwiched between two fiber ferrules to form a fiber compatible Q...