Depressed cladding erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked with carbon nanotube saturable absorber

• Main Authors: Ahmad, Harith, Zulkifli, Ahmad Zarif, Tiu, Zian Cheak, Thambiratnam, Kavintheran, Yasin, Moh
• Format: Article
• Published: IOP Publishing 2019
• Subjects: QC Physics
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/24344/; https://doi.org/10.1088/1612-202X/ab0a70
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

A depressed cladding erbium doped fiber (DC-EDF) laser with a carbon nanotube saturable absorber is proposed and demonstrated. The laser is able to generate a mode-locked output with a narrow pulse width of 0.77 ps at a lasing wavelength of 1496 nm. A 200 m long single-mode fiber together with the D...