We demonstrate a femtosecond mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser(EDFL) using a nickel oxide(Ni O) as a saturable absorber(SA). Ni O nanoparticles are hosted into polyethylene oxide film and attached to fiber fe...We demonstrate a femtosecond mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser(EDFL) using a nickel oxide(Ni O) as a saturable absorber(SA). Ni O nanoparticles are hosted into polyethylene oxide film and attached to fiber ferrule in the laser cavity. The Ni O-SA shows a 39% modulation depth with a 0.04 MW∕cm^2 saturation intensity. Our ring laser cavity based on erbium-doped active fiber with managed intracavity dispersion has the ability to generate ultrashort pulses with a full width at half-maximum(FWHM) of around 2.85 nm centered at 1561.8 nm.The pulses repeat at a frequency of 0.96 MHz and duration of 950 fs.展开更多
文摘We demonstrate a femtosecond mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser(EDFL) using a nickel oxide(Ni O) as a saturable absorber(SA). Ni O nanoparticles are hosted into polyethylene oxide film and attached to fiber ferrule in the laser cavity. The Ni O-SA shows a 39% modulation depth with a 0.04 MW∕cm^2 saturation intensity. Our ring laser cavity based on erbium-doped active fiber with managed intracavity dispersion has the ability to generate ultrashort pulses with a full width at half-maximum(FWHM) of around 2.85 nm centered at 1561.8 nm.The pulses repeat at a frequency of 0.96 MHz and duration of 950 fs.