TY - JOUR
T1 - Mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with zinc phthalocyanine thin film saturable absorber
AU - Soboh, Rawan S.M.
AU - Al-Masoodi, Ahmed H.H.
AU - Erman, Fuad N.A.
AU - Al-Masoodi, Abtisam H.H.
AU - Nizamani, Bilal
AU - Arof, Hamzah
AU - Apsari, Retna
AU - Wadi Harun, Sulaiman
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Airlangga University (Grant No. 804/UN3.15/PT/2021) and the University of Malaya (Grant No. ML001-2017).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - A stable mode-locked laser was demonstrated using a newly developed zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) thin film as passive saturable absorber (SA) in ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL). The ZnPc thin film was obtained using a casting method and then inserted between the two fiber ferrules of a YDFL ring cavity to generate mode-locked pulses. The resulting pulsed laser operated at a wavelength of 1034.5 nm having a repetition rate of 3.3 MHz. At pump power of 277 mW, the maximum output power and pulse energy are achieved at 4.92 mW and 1.36 nJ, respectively. ZnPc has a high chemical and photochemical stability, and its significance for use as a potential SA in a mode-locked laser is reported in this work. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
AB - A stable mode-locked laser was demonstrated using a newly developed zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) thin film as passive saturable absorber (SA) in ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL). The ZnPc thin film was obtained using a casting method and then inserted between the two fiber ferrules of a YDFL ring cavity to generate mode-locked pulses. The resulting pulsed laser operated at a wavelength of 1034.5 nm having a repetition rate of 3.3 MHz. At pump power of 277 mW, the maximum output power and pulse energy are achieved at 4.92 mW and 1.36 nJ, respectively. ZnPc has a high chemical and photochemical stability, and its significance for use as a potential SA in a mode-locked laser is reported in this work. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
KW - Mode-locking
KW - Saturable absorber (SA)
KW - Ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL)
KW - Zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) thin film
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U2 - 10.1007/s12200-022-00027-2
DO - 10.1007/s12200-022-00027-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131821315
SN - 2095-2759
VL - 15
JO - Frontiers of Optoelectronics
JF - Frontiers of Optoelectronics
IS - 1
M1 - 28
ER -