Multiwall carbon nanotube polyvinyl alcohol-based saturable absorber in passively Q-switched fiber laser

• Main Authors: Ahmad, H, Ismail, Mohammad Faizal, Hassan, S.N.M, Ahmad, Faizah, Zulkifli, Mohd Zamani, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: OSA Publishing 2014
• Subjects: QC Physics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/84298/1/Multiwall%20carbon%20nanotube%20polyvinyl%20alcohol-based.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/84298/; https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-53-30-7025
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

In this work, we demonstrated a compact Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser capable of generating high-energy pulses using a newly developed multiwall carbon nanotube (CNT) polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) thin film based saturable absorber. Q-switched pulse operation is obtained by sandwiching the thin f...