Q-switched fiber laser operating at 1 μm region with electron beam deposited titanium nanoparticles

• Main Authors: Muhammad, Ahmad Razif, Zakaria, Rozalina, Wang, Pengfei, Ahmad, Muhammad Taufiq, Rahim, Hazli Rafis Abdul, Arof, Hamzah, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/23946/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2019.105702

We demonstrate the generation of Q-switched pulse train in Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Laser (YDFL) cavity by employing titanium (Ti) thin film as a passive saturable absorber (SA). The Ti-SA was fabricated by depositing Ti particles using electron beam evaporation on the surface of a polyvinyl alcohol (P...