A few-picosecond and high-peak-power passively mode-locked erbium-doped fibre laser based on zinc oxide polyvinyl alcohol film saturable absorber

• Main Authors: Alani, Ibrahim A.M., Lokman, Muhammad Quisar, Ahmed, Mahmoud Hazzaa M., Al-Masoodi, Ahmed Hasan Hamood, Latiff, Anas Abdul, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Published: IOP Publishing 2018
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/22591/; https://doi.org/10.1088/1555-6611/aabd24

This paper demonstrates a few-picosecond and high-peak-power mode-locked fiber laser, using an erbium-doped fiber as a gain medium and zinc oxide (ZnO) element as a new passively saturable absorber (SA). The ZnO element was synthesized using a seeding solution and amended with a polyvinyl alcohol to...